The Luxury of 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 The Luxury of Skepticism write by Timothy Dykstal. This book was released on 2001. The Luxury of Skepticism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From his close analysis of the works of the era's great philosophers, Dykstal argues that the dialogue as a literary form helped to develop, and subsequently transform, the public sphere in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England."--BOOK JACKET.
Skepticism, Belief, and the Modern
Skepticism, Belief, and the Modern - 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 Skepticism, Belief, and the Modern write by Aryeh Botwinick. This book was released on 1997. Skepticism, Belief, and the Modern available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawing upon diverse disciplines--political theory, metaphysics, analytic philosophy, intellectual history, and Jewish studies--Aryeh Botwinick calls into question cherished boundaries of western thought, specifically those that isolate religion. In developing his argument, he applies deconstructionist approaches to such classic texts as Plato's REPUBLIC, Maimonides' GUIDE OF THE PERPLEXED, and Hobbes's LEVIATHAN.
Doubt and Skepticism in Antiquity and the Renaissance
Doubt and Skepticism in Antiquity and the Renaissance - 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 Doubt and Skepticism in Antiquity and the Renaissance write by Michelle Zerba. This book was released on 2012-07-09. Doubt and Skepticism in Antiquity and the Renaissance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An interdisciplinary study of the forms and uses of uncertainty in important works of literature and philosophy in antiquity and the Renaissance.
The New Skepticism
The New 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 The New Skepticism write by Paul Kurtz. This book was released on 1992. The New Skepticism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Kurtz argues that there are objective standards for judging truth claims in science, ethics, and philosophy. Of special interest is the application of the new skepticism to paranormal claims such as reincarnation and faith healing, and to religious beliefs, ethics and politics.
Skeptical Philosophy for Everyone
Skeptical Philosophy for Everyone - 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 Skeptical Philosophy for Everyone write by Richard H. Popkin. This book was released on 2010-06-02. Skeptical Philosophy for Everyone available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Highly recommended as a first philosophy book...-Library JournalThis lucid, informal, and very accessible history of Western thought takes the unique approach of interpreting skepticism-i.e., doubts about knowledge claims and the criteria for making such claims-as an important stimulus for the development of philosophy. The authors argue that practically every great thinker from the time of the Greeks to the present has produced theories designed to forestall or refute skepticism: from Plato to Moore and Wittgenstein. The influence of and responses to such 20th-century skeptics as Russell and Derrida are also discussed critically.Popkin and Stroll review each major theory of philosophy chronologically and then further organize these theories into their respective subject areas: metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, political philosophy, and philosophy of religion. Within each subject area the authors discuss how the skeptical challenge gave rise to new philosophical positions. The volume concludes with an especially interesting debate between the authors on the merits of skepticism today. Stroll thinks that ultimately the doubts expressed by skeptics can be refuted, while Popkin denies this.This is an outstanding introduction to the problems of philosophy by two eminent philosophers with a gift for presenting the history of ideas in a very enjoyable fashion.Richard Popkin (Los Angeles, CA) is professor emeritus of philosophy at Washington University, St. Louis, and adjunct professor of history and philosophy at the University of California at Los Angeles.Avrum Stroll (San Diego, CA) is research professor of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego.
