What Do Philosophers Do?: Skepticism and the Practice of Philosophy

by Penelope Maddy

How do you know the world around you isn't just an elaborate dream, or the creation of an evil neuroscientist? If all you have to go on are various lights, sounds, smells, tastes and tickles, how can you know what the world is really like, or even whether there is a world beyond your own mind? Questions like these -- familiar from science fiction and dorm room debates -- lie at the core of venerable philosophical arguments for radical skepticism:...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190618698
• ISBN13: 9780190618698
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.1" x 7.1"