Putting skeptics in their place : the nature of skeptical arguments and their role in philosophical inquiry
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Putting skeptics in their place : the nature of skeptical arguments and their role in philosophical inquiry
（Cambridge studies in philosophy / general editor, Ernest Sosa）
Cambridge University Press, 2007, 2000
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
"First published 2000, this digitally printed version 2007"--T.p. verso
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This book, first published in 2000, is about the nature of skeptical arguments and their role in philosophical inquiry. John Greco delineates three main theses: that a number of historically prominent skeptical arguments make no obvious mistake, and therefore cannot be easily dismissed; that the analysis of skeptical arguments is philosophically useful and important, and should therefore have a central place in the methodology of philosophy; and that taking skeptical arguments seriously requires us to adopt an externalist, reliabilist epistemology. Greco argues that the importance of skeptical arguments is methodological. It is further argued that taking skeptical arguments seriously requires us to adopt a version of 'virtue epistemology', or a theory of knowledge that makes intellectual virtue central in the analysis of knowledge. The above methodology has consequences for moral and religious epistemology; in particular, a theory of moral perception is defended.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. The nature of skeptical arguments and their role in philosophical inquiry
- 2. Skepticism about the world: part I - reconstructions
- 3. Skepticism about the world: part II - dismissive responses
- 4. Skepticism about the world: part III - dualism, realism and representationalism
- 5. The argument from an infinite regress of reasons
- 6. Hume's skepticism about unobserved matters of fact
- 7. Agent reliabilism
- 8. Agent reliabilism and the relevant sense of 'relevant possibility'
- 9. Moral and religious epistemology
- Bibliography
- Index.
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