Putting Skeptics in Their Place: The Nature of Skeptical Arguments and Their Role in Philosophical Inquiry (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521772631)

This book is about the nature of skeptical arguments and their role in philosophical inquiry. John Greco delineates three main theses: that a number of historically prominent skeptical arguments make no obvious mistake, and therefore cannot be easily dismissed; that the analysis of skeptical arguments is philosophically useful and important, and should therefore have a central place in the methodology of philosophy; and that taking skeptical arguments seriously requires us to adopt an externalist, reliabilist epistemology. This book will be of interest to professionals and graduate students in epistemology and moral philosophy.

Author: John Greco
ISBN-10: 052177263X
ISBN-13: 9780521772631
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/22/2000
Pages: 282
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.36w x 0.90d