Common Sense Science And Scepticism
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Author | : Alan Musgrave |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1993-02-11 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521436250 |
Can we know anything for certain? Dogmatists think we can, sceptics think we cannot, and epistemology is the great debate between them. Some dogmatists seek certainty in the deliverances of the senses. Sceptics object that the senses are not an adequate basis for certain knowledge. Other dogmatists seek certainty in the deliverances of pure reason. Sceptics object that rational self-evidence is no guarantee of truth. This book is an introductory and historically-based survey of the debate, siding for the most part with scepticism to show that the desire to vanquish it has often led to doctrines of idealism or anti-realism. Scepticism, science and common sense produce another view, fallibilism or critical rationalism: although we can have little or no certain knowledge, as the sceptics maintain, we can and do have plenty of conjectural knowledge. Fallibilism incorporates an uncompromising realism about perception, science, and the nature of truth.
Author | : Rik Peels |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 2020-11-19 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1108476007 |
A comprehensive exploration of the historical development and philosophical importance of common-sense philosophy.
Author | : F. L. van Holthoon |
Publisher | : University Press of America |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780819165046 |
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Author | : A. Coliva |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2010-09-17 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 023028969X |
Does scepticism threaten our common sense picture of the world? Does it really undermine our deep-rooted certainties? Answers to these questions are offered through a comparative study of the epistemological work of two key figures in the history of analytic philosophy, G. E. Moore and Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Author | : Charles Bradford Bow |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0198783906 |
Common sense philosophy was one of the Scottish Enlightenment's most original intellectual products. The nine specially written essays in this volume explore the philosophical and historical significance of this school of thought, recovering the ways in which it developed during the long eighteenth century.
Author | : Maurice Mandelbaum |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2019-12-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 142143170X |
Originally published in 1964. In four essays, Professor Mandelbaum challenges some of the most common assumptions of contemporary epistemology. Through historical analyses and critical argument, he attempts to show that one cannot successfully sever the connections between philosophic and scientific accounts of sense perception. While each essay is independent of the others, and the argument of each must therefore be judged on its own merits, one theme is common to all: that critical realism, as Mandelbaum calls it, is a viable epistemological position, even though some schools of thought hold it in low esteem.
Author | : Antonio Livi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Common sense |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jennifer Nagel |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 019966126X |
What is knowledge? Is it the same as opinion or truth? Do you need to be able to justify a claim in order to count as knowing it? How can we know that the outer world is real and not a dream? Questions like these have existed since ancient times, and the branch of philosophy dedicated to answering them - epistemology - has been active for thousands of years. In this thought-provoking Very Short Introduction, Jennifer Nagel considers the central problems and paradoxes in the theory of knowledge and draws attention to the ways in which philosophers and theorists have responded to them. By exploring the relationship between knowledge and truth, and considering the problem of scepticism, Nagel introduces a series of influential historical and contemporary theories of knowledge, incorporating methods from logic, linguistics, and psychology, using a number of everyday examples to demonstrate the key issues and debates. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author | : Fred Wilson |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 825 |
Release | : 2008-01-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0802097642 |
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 thorough scholarly analysis. This study argues that Hume was, in fact, a critical realist in the early twentieth-century sense, a period in which the term was used to describe the epistemological and ontological theories of such philosophers as Roy Wood Sellars and Bertrand Russell. Carefully situating Hume in his historical context, that is, relative to Aristotelian and rationalist traditions, Fred Wilson makes important and unique insights into Humean philosophy. Analyzing key sections of the Treatise, the Enquiry, and the Dialogues concerning Natural Religion, Wilson offers a deeper understanding of Hume by taking into account the philosopher's theories of the external world. Such a reading, the author explains, is not only more faithful to the texts, but also reinforces the view of Hume as a critical realist in light of twentieth-century discussions between externalism and internalism, and between coherentists and foundationalists. Complete with original observations and ideas, this study is sure to generate debates about Humean philosophy, critical realism, and the limits of perceptual knowledge.
Author | : Paul Stanistreet |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351929399 |
This book explores the relationship between Hume's sceptical philosophy and his Newtonian ambition of founding a science of human nature. Assessing both received and 'new' readings of Hume's philosophy, Stanistreet offers a line of interpretation which, he argues, makes sense of many of the apparent conflicts and paradoxes in Hume's work and describes how well-known controversies concerning Hume's thinking about causation, induction and the external world can be resolved. Offering important new contributions to Hume scholarship, this book also surveys and assesses the new research responsible for the recent sea-change in thinking about Hume. It offers an accessible overview of these developments while suggesting significant revisions to current readings of Hume's philosophy.