Thomas Reid and scepticism : his reliabilist response
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Thomas Reid and scepticism : his reliabilist response
（Routledge studies in eighteenth century philosophy, 3）
Routledge, 2002
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This book bears witness to the current reawakening of interest in Reid's philosophy. It first examines Reid's negative attack on the Way of Ideas, and finds him to be a devastating critic of his predecessors. Turning to the positive part of Reid's programme, the author then develops a fresh interpretation of Reid as an anticipator of present-day 'reliabilism'.
Throughout the book, Reid is presented as a powerful thinker with much to say to philosophers in the twenty-first century. The book will be of interest not only to Reid scholars and historians of philosophy, but also to specialists and students in contemporary epistemology.
Table of Contents
1. Kinds of Sceptic2. The Attack on Cartesian Foundationalism3. The First Principles of Contingent Truths4. Reid's Fallibilist/Foundationalist Mixture5. The Stucture of Reid's Reliabilism6. The Slippery Slope7. Was Reid Tilting at a Straw Man?8. Reid's Further Arguments against Scepticism9. The Truth Claim10. Reid's Theism Reconsidered
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