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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Weintraub Ruth <1955->"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"The sceptical challenge [[electronic resource] /] / Ruth Weintraub"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1997"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"1-280-33046-5"]
[{"$nulls":4},"1-134-77088-X"]
[{"$nulls":4},"0-203-28386-4"]
[{"$nulls":4},"0-203-06745-2"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (154 p.)"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"International library of philosophy"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"121/.2"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Skepticism"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Philosophy"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Description based upon print version of record."]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-135) and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Cover; THE SCEPTICAL CHALLENGE; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 KNOWLEDGE, JUSTIFICATION AND TRUTH; Introduction; The concept of epistemic justification; The circle of belief; Why does justification matter?; Knowledge without justification; Knowledge: beyond truth and justification; Does knowledge-scepticism matter?; Conclusion; 2 THE SCEPTICAL LIFE; Radical scepticism; The agnostic life; Is it possible to suspend belief?; The logical defense of agnosticism; The ethical defense of agnosticism"]
[{"$nulls":4},"The implementation of the sceptical doctrine The sceptical doctrine and the practical difficulties; 3 THE CHALLENGE; Two types of scepticism; The sceptical doctrine and its justification; Further solutions; A way out of the predicament; 4 THE RESPONSE; Our objective; Our strategy; Naturalized epistemology?; Modest epistemology; 5 DESCARTES' SCEPTICAL CHALLENGE; Introduction; The Cartesian Circle; The source of the circularity: one diagnosis; Descartes is not an antecedent sceptic; A non-circular response to consequent scepticism?; Doing without the principle of clarity and distinctness?"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Beginning with the principle of clarity and distinctness?An alternative diagnosis of the circle; 6 INDUCTIVE SCEPTICISM; Introduction; Whose problem is it anyway?; The first premise; The second premise; The third premise; The fourth and fifth premises; The argument newly couched; 7 SCEPTICISM AND THE STRUCTURE OF JUSTIFICATION; Introduction; "]
[{"$nulls":4},"Terminology; Arguments against terminating chains of justification; An argument against infinite justification chains; A second argument against infinite justification chains; Arguments against circular justification chains"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Is groundless justification trivial?Is terminating justification trivial?; Triviality: a red herring; 8 INDUCTIVE SCEPTICISM REVISITED; Introduction; What justification are we seeking?; Can induction's reliability be shown deductively?; Must induction be non-empirically justified?; The apriorist urge; Can induction be justified empirically?; The justification of induction; 9 TRANSCENDENT SCEPTICISM AND INFERENCE TO THE BEST EXPLANATION; Introduction; Is the unobservable epistemically inaccessible?; Van Fraassen's argument; Hume's argument; Russell's first argument; Russell's second argument"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Moderate scepticism?10 THE DEMON ARGUMENT REVISITED; Introduction; Denying the second premise?; Denying the first premise; Williams' objection; Inferring the world from appearances; Alston's objection; Further objections rebutted; Transcendental arguments; 11 THE DREAM ARGUMENT REVISITED; Introduction; Rejecting the first premise; Sextus' dream argument; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index"]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","Do we really know the things we think we know? Are any of our beliefs reasonable? Scepticism gives a pessimistic reply to these important epistemological questions - we don't know anything; none of our beliefs are reasonable. But can such a seemingly paradoxical claim be more than an intellectual curiosity? And if it is, can it be refuted? Ruth Weintraub answers yes to both these questions. The sceptical challenge is a formidable one, and should be confronted, not dismissed. The theoretical and practical difficulties it presents - in that the sceptical life cannot be lived, and the doctrine"]