Scepticism Comes Alive

by Bryan Frances

Book Overview

In epistemology the nagging voice of the sceptic has always been present. Over the last thirty years or so philosophers have thought of several promising ways to counter the radical sceptic: for instance, facts about the reliability of our cognitive processes, principles determining which possibilities must be ruled out in order to have knowledge, and principles regarding the context-sensitivity of knowledge attributions. In this entertaining and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199550484
• ISBN13: 9780199550487
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"