A comprehensive anthology on Scepticism, that most controversial and yet indispensable philosophical position. In his introduction, Professor Popkin gives an overview of the history of Scepticism from ancient times to the present and outlines the basic kinds of sceptical argument. The anthology includes the work of famous sceptics, from the great Greek philosopher Plato to Montaigne, Bacon, Descartes, Leibniz, Berkeley, Hume, Voltaire, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, William James, Bertrand Russell and Wittgenstein up to the most recent developments in postmodern philosophy. Scepticism...
A comprehensive anthology on Scepticism, that most controversial and yet indispensable philosophical position. In his introduction, Professor Popkin g...