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Epistemic Relativism and Scepticism - Unwinding the Braid (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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Epistemic Relativism and Scepticism - Unwinding the Braid (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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This book confronts the threats of epistemic relativism and
Pyrrhonian scepticism to analytic philosophy. Epistemic relativists
reject absolute notions of knowledge and justification, while
sceptics claim that knowledge and justification of any kind are
unattainable. If either of these views is correct, then there can
be no objective basis for thinking that one set of methods does a
better job of delivering accurate information than any other set of
methods. Philosophers have generally sought to resist these threats
by responding to the argument that seems to motivate both
positions: the Agrippan trilemma. Steven Bland argues that this is
a mistaken strategy. He surveys the most influential responses to
the Agrippan trilemma, and shows that none of them succeeds in
undermining epistemic relativism. Bland also offers a new,
dialectical strategy of challenging epistemic relativism by
uncovering how epistemic methods depend on one another for their
applications. By means of this novel analysis, the book concludes
that there are principled reasons to prefer naturalistic to
non-naturalistic methods, even if these reasons do little to ease
the threat of scepticism.
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