PUTTING SKEPTICS IN THEIR PLACE by John Greco ( 9780511527418 )

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PUTTING SKEPTICS IN THEIR PLACE
THE NATURE OF SKEPTICAL ARGUMENTS AND THEIR ROLE IN PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY

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0511527411

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9780511527418

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

3 November, 2009

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Philosophy

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This book, first published in 2000, examines the nature of skeptical arguments and their role in philosophical inquiry.

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This book, first published in 2000, is about the nature of skeptical arguments and their role in philosophical inquiry. John Greco delineates three main theses: that a number of historically prominent skeptical arguments make no obvious mistake, and therefore cannot be easily dismissed; that the analysis of skeptical arguments is philosophically useful and important, and should therefore have a central place in the methodology of philosophy; and that taking skeptical arguments seriously requires us to adopt an externalist, reliabilist epistemology. Greco argues that the importance of skeptical arguments is methodological. It is further argued that taking skeptical arguments seriously requires us to adopt a version of 'virtue epistemology', or a theory of knowledge that makes intellectual virtue central in the analysis of knowledge. The above methodology has consequences for moral and religious epistemology; in particular, a theory of moral perception is defended.

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Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

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