186 Pages
by
Routledge
186 Pages
by
Routledge
186 Pages
by
Routledge
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Originally published in 1990. This study argues that scepticism is an intelligible view and that the issue scepticism raises is whether or not certain sceptical hypotheses are as plausible as the ordinary views we accept. It discusses psychological concepts, definitions of knowledge, belief and hypothetic inference (inference to the best explanation). Starting from ‘Is skepticism a problem for... Read more
Preface 1. Skepticism and Epistemology 2. The Warranted-True-Belief Conception 3. Hypothetic Inference 4. Psychological Concepts 5. Sense Data 6. The Definition of Knowledge 7. The Possibility of Skepticism
Biography
Gilbert Harman teaches at Princeton University, USA. He has published on statistical learning theory and moral philosophy as well as reasoning and recently co-edited A Companion to W. V. O. Quine (Wiley Blackwell)
