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Scepticism (Paperback)
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Scepticism (Paperback)
Series: Central Problems of Philosophy
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The history of scepticism is assumed by many to be the history of
failed responses to a problem first raised by Descartes. While the
thought of the ancient sceptics is acknowledged, their principle
concern with how to live a good life is regarded as bearing little,
if any, relation to the work of contemporary epistemologists. In
"Scepticism" Neil Gascoigne engages with the work of canonical
philosophers from Descartes, Hume and Kant through to Moore,
Austin, and Wittgenstein to show how themes that first emerged in
the Hellenistic period are inextricably bound up with the
historical development of scepticism. Foremost amongst these is the
view that scepticism relates not to the possibility of empirical
knowledge but to the possibility of epistemological theory. This
challenge to epistemology itself is explored and two contemporary
trends are considered: the turn against foundationalist
epistemology and towards more naturalistic conceptions of inquiry,
and the resistance to this on the part of non-naturalistically
inclined philosophers. In contextualizing the debate in this way
Gascoigne equips students with a better appreciation of the
methodological importance of sceptical reasoning, an analytic
understanding of the structure of sceptical arguments, and an
awareness of the significance of scepticism to the nature of
philosophical inquiry.
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