Putting Skeptics in Their Place The Nature of Skeptical Arguments and Their Role in Philosophical Inquiry

Name: Putting Skeptics in Their Place The Nature of Skeptical Arguments and Their Role in Philosophical Inquiry
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ISBN: 9780521045537

ISBN-10: 0521045533

ISBN-13: 9780521045537

Edition: 2007

Authors: John Greco

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This book is about the nature of skeptical arguments and their role in philosophical inquiry. John Greco delineates three main theses: that a number of historically prominent skeptical arguments make no obvious mistake, and therefore cannot be easily dismissed; that the analysis of skeptical arguments is philosophically useful and important, and should therefore have a central place in the methodology of philosophy; and that taking skeptical arguments seriously requires us to adopt an externalist, reliabilist epistemology. This book will be of interest to professionals and graduate students in epistemology and moral philosophy.

Book details

List price: $29.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 284
Size: 5.91" wide x 8.94" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English

John Greco is Leonard and Elizabeth Eslick Chair in Philosophy and Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University.



Preface



The nature of skeptical arguments and their role in philosophical inquiry



Skepticism about the world: part I - reconstructions



Skepticism about the world: part II - dismissive responses



Skepticism about the world: part III - dualism, realism and representationalism



The argument from an infinite regress of reasons



Hume's skepticism about unobserved matters of fact



Agent reliabilism



Agent reliabilism and the relevant sense of 'relevant possibility'



Moral and religious epistemology


Bibliography


Index