Formal Epistemology and Cartesian Skepticism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Formal Epistemology and Cartesian Skepticism write by Tomoji Shogenji. This book was released on 2017-11-15. Formal Epistemology and Cartesian Skepticism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book develops new techniques in formal epistemology and applies them to the challenge of Cartesian skepticism. It introduces two formats of epistemic evaluation that should be of interest to epistemologists and philosophers of science: the dual-component format, which evaluates a statement on the basis of its safety and informativeness, and the relative-divergence format, which evaluates a probabilistic model on the basis of its complexity and goodness of fit with data. Tomoji Shogenji shows that the former lends support to Cartesian skepticism, but the latter allows us to defeat Cartesian skepticism. Along the way, Shogenji addresses a number of related issues in epistemology and philosophy of science, including epistemic circularity, epistemic closure, and inductive skepticism.
Formal Epistemology and Cartesian Skepticism
Formal Epistemology and Cartesian Skepticism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Formal Epistemology and Cartesian Skepticism write by Tomoji Shogenji. This book was released on 2017-11-15. Formal Epistemology and Cartesian Skepticism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book develops new techniques in formal epistemology and applies them to the challenge of Cartesian skepticism. It introduces two formats of epistemic evaluation that should be of interest to epistemologists and philosophers of science: the dual-component format, which evaluates a statement on the basis of its safety and informativeness, and the relative-divergence format, which evaluates a probabilistic model on the basis of its complexity and goodness of fit with data. Tomoji Shogenji shows that the former lends support to Cartesian skepticism, but the latter allows us to defeat Cartesian skepticism. Along the way, Shogenji addresses a number of related issues in epistemology and philosophy of science, including epistemic circularity, epistemic closure, and inductive skepticism.
Representation and Scepticism from Aquinas to Descartes
Representation and Scepticism from Aquinas to Descartes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Representation and Scepticism from Aquinas to Descartes write by Han Thomas Adriaenssen. This book was released on 2017-04-13. Representation and Scepticism from Aquinas to Descartes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first comparative study of the sceptical reception of representationalism in medieval and early modern thought.
A Critical Introduction to Skepticism
A Critical Introduction to Skepticism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Critical Introduction to Skepticism write by Allan Hazlett. This book was released on 2014-03-13. A Critical Introduction to Skepticism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Skepticism remains a central and defining issue in epistemology, and in the wider tradition of Western philosophy. To better understand the contemporary position of this important philosophical subject, Allan Hazlett introduces a range of topics, including: • Ancient skepticism • skeptical arguments in the work of Hume and Descartes • Cartesian skepticism in contemporary epistemology • anti-skeptical strategies, including Mooreanism, nonclosure, and contextualism • additional varieties of skepticism • the practical consequences of Cartesian skepticism Presenting a comprehensive survey of the key problems, arguments, and theories, together with additional readings, A Critical Introduction to Skepticism is an ideal guide for students and scholars looking to understand how skepticism is shaping epistemology today.
Pyrrhonian Skepticism
Pyrrhonian Skepticism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pyrrhonian Skepticism write by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong. This book was released on 2004-07-22. Pyrrhonian Skepticism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Throughout the history of philosophy, skepticism has posed one of the central challenges of epistemology. Opponents of skepticism--including externalists, contextualists, foundationalists, and coherentists--have focussed largely on one particular variety of skepticism, often called Cartesian or Academic skepticism, which makes the radical claim that nobody can know anything. However, this version of skepticism is something of a straw man, since virtually no philosopher endorses this radical skeptical claim. The only skeptical view that has been truly held--by Sextus, Montaigne, Hume, Wittgenstein, and, most recently, Robert Fogelin--has been Pyrrohnian skepticism. Pyrrhonian skeptics do not assert Cartesian skepticism, but neither do they deny it. The Pyrrhonian skeptics' doubts run so deep that they suspend belief even about Cartesian skepticism and its denial. Nonetheless, some Pyrrhonians argue that they can still hold "common beliefs of everyday life" and can even claim to know some truths in an everyday way. This edited volume presents previously unpublished articles on this subject by a strikingly impressive group of philosophers, who engage with both historical and contemporary versions of Pyrrhonian skepticism. Among them are Gisela Striker, Janet Broughton, Don Garrett, Ken Winkler, Hans Sluga, Ernest Sosa, Michael Williams, Barry Stroud, Robert Fogelin, and Roy Sorensen. This volume is thematically unified and will interest a broad spectrum of scholars in epistemology and the history of philosophy.
