178 Pages
by Routledge

180 Pages
by Routledge

180 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1968. Scepticism is generally regarded as a position which, if correct, would be disastrous for our everyday and scientific beliefs. According to this view, a sceptical argument is one that leads to the intuitively false conclusion that we cannot know anything. But there is another, much neglected and more radical form of scepticism, Pyrrhonism, which neither denies nor... Read more

Foreword 1. Pyrrho’s Scepticism According to Sextus Empiricus 2. The Psychological Possibility of Scepticism 3. Scepticism and Positive Mental Health 4. Conceptual Complementarity of Evidence and Truth Requirements 5. Dialectics of Modern Epistemological Scepticism

Biography

Arne Naess