Unnatural Doubts: Epistemological Realism and the Basis of ScepticismPrinceton University Press, 11.1.1996 - 386 sivua In Unnatural Doubts, Michael Williams constructs a masterly polemic against the very idea of epistemology, as traditionally conceived. Although philosophers have often found problems in efforts to study the nature and limits of human knowledge, Williams provides the first book that systematically argues against there being such a thing as knowledge of the external world. He maintains that knowledge of the world consitutes a theoretically coherent kind of knowledge, whose possibility needs to be defended, only given a deeply problematic doctrine he calls "epistemological realism." The only alternative to epistemological realism is a thoroughgoing contextualism. |
Sisältö
Pessimism in Epistemology | 1 |
The Priority of Experience | 47 |
Epistemological Realism | 89 |
Examples and Paradigms | 135 |
Scepticism and Reflection | 172 |
Scepticism and Objectivity | 225 |
Coherence and Truth | 267 |
The Instability of Knowledge | 317 |
Notes | 360 |
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Unnatural Doubts: Epistemological Realism and the Basis of Scepticism Michael Williams Rajoitettu esikatselu - 1996 |