Skepticism: The Central IssuesISBN: 978-0-631-21356-7
Paperback
224 pages
May 2002, Wiley-Blackwell
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- Presents and analyzes the most important arguments in the history of Western philosophy's skeptical tradition
- Argues that skepticism is mistaken and that knowledge is possible
- Dissects the problems of realism and the philosophical doubts about the accuracy of the senses
- Explores the ancient argument against a criterion of knowledge, Descartes' skeptical arguments, and skeptical arguments applied to inductive inference and self-knowledge
- Uses Moore's proof of an external world and the reliabilist conception of knowledge to illustrate that the traditional skeptical arguments fail to meet their mark.