Skepticism: The Central Issues

ISBN: 978-0-631-21356-7

Paperback

224 pages

March 2002, Wiley-Blackwell

Other Available Formats: Hardcover

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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.