Scepticism and the foundation of epistemology : : a study in the metalogical fallacies /

Scepticism and the foundation of epistemology : : a study in the metalogical fallacies / / by Luciano Floridi.

Can knowledge provide its own justification? This sceptical challenge - known as the problem of the criterion - is one of the major issues in the history of epistemology, and this volume provides its first comprehensive study, in a span of time that goes from Sextus Empiricus to Quine. After an esse...

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Superior document:Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Volume 70
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Floridi, Luciano,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands ;, New York ;, Koln, [Germany] : : E.J. Brill,, 1996.
©1996
Year of Publication:1996
Language:English
Series:Brill's studies in intellectual history ; Volume 70.
Physical Description:1 online resource (387 pages) :; illustrations.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • CHAPTER ONE: THE OBJECT: ON THE NATURE OF KNOWLEDGES
  • CHAPTER TWO: THE THEORY OF THE OBJECT: ON THE NATURE OF EPISTEMOLOGY
  • CHAPTER THREE: THE PROBLEM WITH THE THEORY: A HISTORICAL RECONSTRUCTION
  • CHAPTER FOUR: THE PROBLEM WITH THE THEORY: A MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS
  • CHAPTER FIVE: THE SOLUTIONS OF THE PROBLEM: A PHENOMENOLOGY
  • CHAPTER SIX: THE DISSOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM: A PROPOSAL
  • CHAPTER SEVEN: AGAINST THE DISSOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM: THREE OBJECTIONS
  • CONCLUSION: THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE DISSOLUTION: THREE FUTURE TASKS
  • APPENDIX: DEFINITIONS, FORMULATIONS AND QUESTIONS
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • GENERAL INDEX.

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