Skepticism: Historical and Contemporary Inquiries

ISBN-13: 9780367886684 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 272 str.

G. Anthony Bruno; A. C. Rutherford

Opis

In this outstanding collection, philosophers engage with skepticism in five clear sections.  Essential reading for students and scholars in epistemology and the history of philosophy and will also be of interest to those in related disciplines such as religion and sociology.

Spis treści

Introduction G. Anthony Bruno and A.C. Rutherford

Part 1: Forms of Skepticism

1. Homeric Contributions to Skepticism Michael Forster

2. Hume and the Sceptical Malady Donald C. Ainslie

3. Skepticism and Intellectual Freedom: A Post-Kantian Perspective

Brady Bowman

Part 2: Skepticism and Certainty

4. Facts and Certainty, with Afterword Crispin Wright

5. Facts and Certainty: A Retrospective Crispin Wright

6. Pyrrhonian Scepticism and the Agnostic State of Mind Casey Perin

Part 3: Skepticism and Knowledge

7. Skeptical Arguments in the Later Middle Ages Martin Pickavé

8. Leaps in the Dark: Epistemological Skepticism in Kripke’s Wittgenstein Hannah Ginsborg

9. Empirical Knowledge as Contradiction Sebastian Rödl

Part 4: Skepticism and Transcendental Method

10. Kant on Self-Conscious Knowledge and the Idea of a Capacity for Judgment Andrea Kern

11. Skepticism, Deduction, and Reason’s Maturation G. Anthony Bruno

Part 5: Anti-Skeptical Strategies

12. Unnatural Doubts Duncan Pritchard

13. Overcoming Locality Skepticism by Abandoning the World Markus Gabriel.

Index

O autorze

G. Anthony Bruno is Lecturer in philosophy at Royal Holloway University, UK. He has published numerous articles on Kant, German idealism, and phenomenology. 

A.C. Rutherford is a doctoral student at the University of Bonn, Germany. Her current research focuses primarily on ancient epistemology and philosophy of mind.