this is a very sharp, effective, and valuable book. Not only does the depth and tenacity of the skeptical problem emerge forcefully, embarrassing those who charge that the skeptic is muddled, but Fogelin's detailed critiques of particular writers are among the best around.

International Studies in Philosophy 2000

Fogelin begins with a discussion of Gettier cases - normally a yawn-producer, but here a source of real insight.

International Studies in Philosophy 2000

Many of Fogelin's criticisms of other views are undeniably interesting and incisive.

Times Literary Supplement

This work, written from a neo-Pyrrhonian perspective, is an examination of contemporary theories of knowledge and justification. It takes ideas primarily found in Sextus Empiricus's Outlines of Pyrrhonism, restates them in a modern idiom, and then asks whether any contemporary theory of knowledge meets the challenge they raise. The first part, entitled Gettier and the Problem of Knowledge, attempts to rescue our ordinary concept of knowledge from those philosophers who have assigned burdens to it that it cannot bear. Properly understood, Fogelin shows that the concept of knowledge is unproblematic. The second part of this study, called Agrippa and the Problem of Justification, examines Agrippa's contribution to Pyrrhonism, a systemizing of its procedures which came to be known as the Five Modes Leading to the Suspension of Belief. These modes present a completely general procedure for refuting any claim a dogmatist might make. Though largely unnoticed, there is an uncanny resembleance between problems posed by Agrippa's Five Modes and those that contemporary epistemologists address under the heading of a theory of justification. Fogelin examines the strongest contemporary theories of justification--in both foundationalist and anti-foundationalist forms. The Pyrrhonian conclusion is that recent philosophical writings on justification have made no significant progress in responding to the Pyrrhonian problems they have raised.
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"Many of Fogelin's criticisms of other views are undeniably interesting and incisive."--Times Literary Supplement "Fogelin expertly cuts through volumes of details and qualifications so as to bring to life some of contemporary epistemology's most important problems and proposals. But the book is by no means valuable only as an introduction. Epistemologists will find Fogelin's characterizations and critiques of the field enlightening and his updated Pyrrhonism challenging."--nternational Philosophical Quarterly "Many of Fogelin's criticisms of other views are undeniably interesting and incisive."--Times Literary Supplement "Fogelin expertly cuts through volumes of details and qualifications so as to bring to life some of contemporary epistemology's most important problems and proposals. But the book is by no means valuable only as an introduction. Epistemologists will find Fogelin's characterizations and critiques of the field enlightening and his updated Pyrrhonism challenging."--nternational Philosophical Quarterly "...This is a very sharp, effective, and valuable book. Not only does the depth and tenacity of the skeptical problem emerge forcefully...but Fogelin's detailed critiques of particular writers are among the best around."--International Studies in Philosophy
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ISBN
9780195089875
Publisert
1994
Utgiver
Oxford University Press Inc
Vekt
581 gr
Høyde
238 mm
Bredde
161 mm
Dybde
22 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
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Antall sider
256

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