LEADER 03736oam 2200721I 450 001 9910822024903321 005 20240405165407.0 010 $a1-317-48970-5 010 $a1-317-48971-3 010 $a1-315-71069-2 010 $a1-282-92134-7 010 $a9786612921346 010 $a1-84465-333-1 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315710693 035 $a(CKB)2670000000059349 035 $a(EBL)1900053 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000647538 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12321303 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000647538 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10593898 035 $a(PQKB)11585388 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000442117 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12166313 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000442117 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10444505 035 $a(PQKB)21209866 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1900053 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1900053 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10455629 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL292134 035 $a(OCoLC)898771409 035 $a(OCoLC)958109346 035 $a(OCoLC)1204298820 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB135967 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781844653331 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000059349 100 $a20180706e20142002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aScepticism /$fNeil Gascoigne 210 1$aAbingdon, Oxon :$cRoutledge,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (218 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aCentral problems of philosophy 300 $aFirst published 2002 by Acumen. 311 $a1-902683-45-5 311 $a1-902683-46-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Half Title; Title; Dedication; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The whimsical condition of mankind; 1 Scepticism and knowledge; 2 The legacy of Socrates; 3 Demons, doubt and common life; 4 Transcendental meditations; 5 Un/natural doubts; 6 Internalisms and externalisms; Notes; Bibliography; Index 330 $aThe history of scepticism is assumed by many to be the history of failed responses to a problem first raised by Descartes. While the thought of the ancient sceptics is acknowledged, their principle concern with how to live a good life is regarded as bearing little, if any, relation to the work of contemporary epistemologists. In Scepticism Neil Gascoigne engages with the work of canonical philosophers from Descartes, Hume and Kant through to Moore, Austin, and Wittgenstein to show how themes that first emerged in the Hellenistic period are inextricably bound up with the historical development of scepticism. Foremost amongst these is the view that scepticism relates not to the possibility of empirical knowledge but to the possibility of epistemological theory. This challenge to epistemology itself is explored and two contemporary trends are considered: the turn against foundationalist epistemology and towards more naturalistic conceptions of inquiry, and the resistance to this on the part of non-naturalistically inclined philosophers. In contextualizing the debate in this way Gascoigne equips students with a better appreciation of the methodological importance of sceptical reasoning, an analytic understanding of the structure of sceptical arguments, and an awareness of the significance of scepticism to the nature of philosophical inquiry. 410 0$aCentral problems of philosophy. 606 $aSkepticism 615 0$aSkepticism. 676 $a149.73 700 $aGascoigne$b Neil.$0896682 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822024903321 996 $aScepticism$94065329 997 $aUNINA