书名: Pyrrhonian Reflections on Knowledge and Justification
作者: Robert J. Fogelin (Author)
出版社: Oxford University Press, USA (August 23, 1994)
语言：English
ISBN-10: 0195089871
ISBN-13: 978-0195089875
电子书格式：DOC (Word 文档)
Book Description
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 challenges 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 systematic reduction 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, according to Fogelin, an uncanny resemblance 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 conclusion is that recent philosophical writings on justification have made no significant progress in responding to the Pyrrhonian problems these writings have addressed.
Review
"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." --International 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
About the Author
Robert J. Fogelin is at Dartmouth College.
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作者: Robert J. Fogelin (Author)
出版社: Oxford University Press, USA (August 23, 1994)
语言：English
ISBN-10: 0195089871
ISBN-13: 978-0195089875
电子书格式：DOC (Word 文档)
Book Description
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 challenges 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 systematic reduction 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, according to Fogelin, an uncanny resemblance 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 conclusion is that recent philosophical writings on justification have made no significant progress in responding to the Pyrrhonian problems these writings have addressed.
Review
"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." --International 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
About the Author
Robert J. Fogelin is at Dartmouth College.
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