Tracing postmodernism from its roots in Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Immanuel Kant to their development in thinkers such as Michel Foucault and Richard Rorty, philosopher Stephen Hicks provides a provocative account of why postmodernism has been the most vigorous intellectual movem…
Tracing postmodernism from its roots in Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Immanuel Kant to their development in thinkers such as Michel Foucault and Richard Rorty, philosopher Stephen Hicks provides a provocative account of why postmodernism has been the most vigorous intellectual movem…
L'intera vicenda del pensiero occidentale, dalle più remote origini greco-romane sino ai dibattiti che caratterizzano lo stato attuale della ricerca in filosofia, è segnata in profondità dalla cosiddetta "sfida scettica". Le domande che questa sfida pone sono infatti della più g…
Main description: In this book, authors from a variety of disciplines examine how the interpretative disciplines deal with the lack or loss of certainty for their signs and texts. The focus is on forms of scepticism and theories of probability in the period from 1550 to 1850 whi…
In this book, authors from a variety of disciplines examine how the interpretative disciplines deal with the lack or loss of certainty for their signs and texts. The focus is on forms of scepticism and theories of probability in the period from 1550 to 18.
"In this book, Henrik Lagerlund offers students, researchers, and advanced general readers the first complete history of what is perhaps the most famous of all philosophical problems: skepticism. As the first of its kind, the book traces the influence of philosophical skepticism…
Introduction -- 1. Pyrrhonism and Sextus Empiricus -- 2. Academic Skepticism -- 3. Augustine and Early Latin Medieval Skepticism -- 4. Al-Ghazali and Skepticism in Medieval Arabic and Greek Philosophy -- 5. God as a Deceiver: External World Skepticism in Later Latin Medieval Tim…
"In this book, Henrik Lagerlund offers students, researchers, and advanced general readers the first complete history of what is perhaps the most famous of all philosophical problems: skepticism. As the first of its kind, the book traces the influence of philosophical skepticism…
"In this book, Henrik Lagerlund offers students, researchers, and advanced general readers the first complete history of what is perhaps the most famous of all philosophical problems: skepticism. As the first of its kind, the book traces the influence of philosophical skepticism…