By Ruth Weintraub
ISBN-10: 0415139465
ISBN-13: 9780415139465
The sceptical problem is an impressive one, and may be faced, no longer brushed off. The theoretical and functional problems it offers - in that the sceptical lifestyles can't be lived, and the doctrine turns out self-defeating - are in reality superficial, in line with Ruth Weintraub. Her examine seems to be on the sceptical arguments of Descartes, Hume and the traditional Greek sceptic, Sextus Empiricus. the writer argues that by way of drawing on philosophy, instead of technological know-how, the sceptical problem should be answered.
The Sceptical Challenge is a daring and unique reaction to scepticism; it represents a brand new means of taking a look at the sphere for philosophers of epistemology.
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