Epistemic Angst: Radical Skepticism and the Groundlessness of Our Believing
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Epistemic Angst: Radical Skepticism and the Groundlessness of Our Believing
By (Author) Duncan Pritchard
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
19th March 2019
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge
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Paperback
258
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
Description
Epistemic Angst offers a completely new solution to the ancient philosophical problem of radical skepticism-the challenge of explaining how it is possible to have knowledge of a world external to us. Duncan Pritchard argues that the key to resolving this puzzle is to realize that it is composed of two logically distinct problems, each requiring
Reviews
"[An] innovative, clearly written, and wide-ranging book."---Daniel Immerman, Grazer Philosophische Studien
"Pritchard is an excellent analytic philosopher and manifests to a high degree the analytic philosophical skills of conceptual sophistication and rigour of reasoning."---Peter Davson-Galle, Science and Education
Author Bio
Duncan Pritchard is professor of philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, where he is the director of Eidyn: The Edinburgh Centre for Epistemology, Mind and Normativity. His books include Epistemic Luck and Epistemological Disjunctivism.
