The Price of Doubt

Nicholas Nathan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

188 Seiten

2006
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-40809-7 (ISBN)

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This important contribution to the problem of scepticism offers a new standard for the appraisal of philosophical arguments. It questions the value of the sceptic's argument and provides a potential remedy to anti-sceptical epistemology.

The Price of Doubt is an important contribution to the problem of scepticism. It offers a new standard for the appraisal of philosophical arguments. Nicholas Nathan confronts the sceptic. He questions the value of his argument and the knowledge it contains and provides a potential remedy to the frustrations of anti-sceptical epistemology.

Nicholas Nathan is University Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Liverpool, UK.

Acknowledgements, Introduction, I Arguments for ignorance and the negation test, II Demonic arguments, III Regressive arguments, IV Evidence-or-acquaintance arguments, V Anti-idealism, VI Arguments against justified belief, VII From rational action to rational belief, VIII Arguments against rational belief, IX The affirmation test, Appendix: Semantic objections to demonic arguments, Notes, Works cited, Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	6.4.2006
Reihe/Serie	International Library of Philosophy
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	272 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
ISBN-10	0-415-40809-1 / 0415408091
ISBN-13	978-0-415-40809-7 / 9780415408097
Zustand	Neuware