Scepticism
( Central Problems of Philosophy )
Publication series ：Central Problems of Philosophy
Publisher： McGill-Queen's University Press
Publication year： 2002
E-ISBN: 9780773581975
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780773524767
Subject： B083 Voluntarism, life philosophy
Keyword： 哲学理论
Language： ENG
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Description
Ever since Descartes identified the first task of philosophy as the defeat of scepticism, the challenge posed by scepticism has remained a central problem for epistemology. Neil Gascoigne introduces the sceptical arguments and methods of the canonical philosophers from Sextus Empiricus's Pyrrhonism to Hume before examining the so-called "therapeutic" approaches to scepticism and arguments for scepticism's apparent intractability.