Nicholas Nathan

The Price of Doubt

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Produktbeschreibung

Are any of our beliefs justified? Are they rational? The skeptic thinks that our epistemic justifications are undeserved. Nicholas Nathan confronts the skeptic and questions the value of his argument. Skeptical arguments are against justified and rational belief as well as for ignorance. Nathan argues that the truth value of trivial arguments are a matter of indifference. He tests this conjecture with a varied collection of counterexamples: arguments for ignorance, neo-Cartesian and infinite regress arguments, and also more critically with arguments against justified and rational belief.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780415234153
• ISBN-10: 0415234158
• Artikelnr.: 21875044

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Nathan

Inhaltsangabe

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