Bryan Frances

Scepticism Comes Alive

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Produktbeschreibung

Bryan Frances presents a highly original argument template for generating new kinds of radical scepticism, ones that hold even if all the clever anti-sceptical fixes defeat the traditional sceptic. Sharp, witty, and fun to read, Scepticism Comes Alive will be highly provocative for anyone interested in knowledge and its limits.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 286g
• ISBN-13: 9780199550487
• ISBN-10: 0199550484
• Artikelnr.: 24765995

Autorenporträt

Bryan Frances is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University, New York.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction: When a Sceptical Hypothesis is Live
2: When Experts Make Mistakes
3: How Live Hypotheses Sabotage Knowledge
4: The First Live Sceptical Hypothesis
5: Additional Sceptical Hypotheses
6: The Sceptical Solution
7: Universal Scepticism
8: The Consistency of Scepticism and Knowledge
9: Epistemic Threats, Context, and our Anti-Sceptical Strategies
10: Disarming the Live Sceptical Threat
11: Do Live Sceptical Hypotheses Pose Real Threats?
12: Defeating the Live Sceptic Head-On
13: Concluding Reflections