Philosophical Skepticism

by Editor: Charles Landesman (City University of New York); Editor: Roblin Meeks (Harvard University)

• ISBN13: 9780470692752
• ISBN10: 0470692758
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-04-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Philosophical Skepticism provides a selection of texts drawn from the skeptical tradition of Western philosophy as well as texts written by opponents of skepticism. Taken together with the historical introduction by Landesman and Meeks, these texts clearly illustrate the profound influence that skeptical stances have had on the nature of philosophical inquiry. Draws a selection of texts from the skeptical tradition of Western philosophy as well as texts written by opponents of skepticism. Spans centuries of skeptical and anti-skeptical arguments, from Socrates to Rorty. Includes essays by Plato, Cicero, Diogenes Laertius, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Kierkegaard, Russell, Quine, Nagel, and many others. Provides a solid foundation for further study.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Global Skepticism

From Apology: Plato

From Pyrrho: Diogenes Laertius

From Academica: Cicero

From Outlines of Pyrrhonism: Sextus Empiricus

"Meditation I": René Descartes

From An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding

From The View from Nowhere

"A Defense of Skepticism"

Skeptical Topics: Perception

"The Refutation of Realism"

From "Proof of an External World"

From Sense and Sensibilia

Induction

From The Theory of Probability

"Reliabilism and Induction"

Other Minds

"Other Minds"

"Analogy"

"Knowledge of Other Minds"

Self Knowledge

"Meditation II"

"Of Personal Identity"

From "The Paralogisms of Pure Reason"

From Beyond Good and Evil

From Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Religious Belief

From "Apology for Raymond Sebond"

From Pensées

"Of Miracles"

From Concluding Unscientific Postscript

Responses and Reactions

"Meditation VI"

From The Forced Marriage

From A Treatise of Human Nature

From Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man

From Prolegomena and Critique of Pure Reason

From Being and Time

From "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" and "Epistemology Naturalized"

"Solidarity or Objectivity"

Index

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