Biographical note: Hajo Greif and Martin G. Weiss, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria. Taking a fresh view on Wittgenstein's apparent ethical skepticism, many contributions to this volume explore the reach of what can be said in ethical terms, while others provide crit…
Skepticism is one of the perennial problems of philosophy: from antiquity, to the early modern period of Descartes and Hume, and right through to the present day. It remains a fundamental and widely studied topic and, as Annalisa Coliva and Duncan Pritchard show in this book, it…
"David Hume bridges a gap between classical and non-classical philosophy. Two major approaches in 20th century systematic philosophy {u2013} naturalism and relativism - have both basically been inspired by Hume and create the most controversy nowadays. The dethroning of the know…
The mystery of skepticism: new explorations
by Poston, Ted
fromBrill studies in skepticism
The quicksands of belief: the need for skepticism
by Winn, Janet
fromAmerican University Studies
David Hume is often considered to have been a sceptic, particularly in his conception of the individual's knowledge of the external world. However, a closer examination of his works gives a much different impression of this aspect of Hume's philosophy, one that is due for a thor…
"Radical Skepticism and the Shadow of Doubt brings something new to epistemology both in content and style. At the outset we are asked to imagine a person named Vatol who grows up in a world containing numerous people who are brains-in-vats and who hallucinate their entire lives…
Radical Skepticism and the Shadow of Doubt brings something new to epistemology both in content and style. At the outset we are asked to imagine a person named Vatol who grows up in a world containing numerous people who are brains-in-vats and who hallucinate their entire lives.…
Moral skepticism is at present a vibrant topic of philosophical inquiry. Particularly since the turn of the millennium, the debates between moral skeptics of various stripes and their opponents have gained renewed force not only by taking account of innovative ideas in moral phi…