{"product_id":"certainty-peter-d-klein-9780816609987","title":"Certainty: A Refutation of Scepticism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCertainty\u003c\/i\u003e was first published in 1981. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePhilosophers have traditionally used two strategies to refute the sceptical that empirical knowledge is not possible because our beliefs cannot be adequately justified. One strategy rejects the sceptics' position because it conflicts with the supposedly obvious claim that we do have knowledge. The other defends an analysis of knowledge limited to a weak set of necessary and sufficient conditions of knowledge or limited to a set of conditions specifically designed to be immune to sceptical attack.\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eCertainty: A Refutation of Scepticism\u003c\/i\u003e, Peter D. Klein uses a third strategy. He argues that scepticism can be refuted even if it is granted to the sceptics that knowledge entails absolute certainty. The argument for his thesis has two parts. He identifies the various types of scepticism and shows that the arguments for them depend upon epistemic principles which, when examined carefully, are unable to support the sceptical conclusions. Klein then argues - contrary to the views of most nonsceptics-that knowledge entails certainty and that some empirical beliefs are absolutely certain. In the course of his argument Klein develops and defends an account of justification, knowledge, and certainty. The result is a theory of knowledge based upon a model of justification designed to be acceptable to sceptics, nonsceptics, foundationalists, and coherentists.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter D. Klein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816609985\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816609987\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/10\/1981\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d","brand":"Peter D. Klein","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47611008549119,"sku":"9780816609987","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8386b693-0edd-4b5c-8efe-4352b8dc34b4.jpg?v=1764511120","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/certainty-peter-d-klein-9780816609987","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}