1st Edition

The Price of Doubt

By Nicholas Nathan Copyright 2001
    188 Pages
    by Routledge

    192 Pages
    by Routledge

    The Price of Doubt is an important contribution to the problem of scepticism. It offers a new standard for the appraisal of philosophical arguments. Nicholas Nathan confronts the sceptic. He questions the value of his argument and the knowledge it contains and provides a potential remedy to the frustrations of anti-sceptical epistemology.

    Acknowledgements, Introduction, I Arguments for ignorance and the negation test, II Demonic arguments, III Regressive arguments, IV Evidence-or-acquaintance arguments, V Anti-idealism, VI Arguments against justified belief, VII From rational action to rational belief, VIII Arguments against rational belief, IX The affirmation test, Appendix: Semantic objections to demonic arguments, Notes, Works cited, Index

    Biography

    Nicholas Nathan