Skepticism in Philosophy: A Comprehensive, Historical Introduction

ISBN-13: 9781138555563 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 240 str.

Henrik Lagerlund

Opis

Henrik Lagerlund offers students, researchers, and advanced general readers the first complete history of what is perhaps the most famous of all philosophical problems: skepticism.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Pyrrhonism and Sextus Empiricus  2. Academic Skepticism  3. Augustine and Early Medieval Skepticism  4. Al-Ghazali and Skepticism in Medieval Arabic and Greek Philosophy  5. God as a Deceiver: External World Skepticism in Later Medieval Times  6. Skepticism in the Sixteenth Century: Montaigne, Charron, and Sanches  7. Descartes’s Methodological Skepticism, Bayle’s Super-Skepticism, and Berkeley’s Anti-Skepticism  8. Hume’s Skepticism and Hume on Skepticism  9. The Anti-Skepticism of Thomas Reid, Lady Mary Shepherd, and Immanuel Kant as well as Skepticism in German Idealism  10. G.E. Moore and Ludwig Wittgenstein on Skepticism  11. Skepticism in Contemporary Philosophy  12. Non-Philosophical Skepticism

O autorze

Henrik Lagerlund is Professor of the History of Philosophy at Stockholm University, Sweden. He works primarily on medieval and Renaissance philosophy, and has written several articles and books. He is also the editor of The Routledge Companion to Sixteenth Century Philosophy (2017) and The Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy, Second Edition (2020).