Robert Almeder

Truth and Skepticism

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Produktbeschreibung

Robert Almeder provides a comprehensive discussion and definitive refutation of our common conception of truth as a necessary condition for knowledge of the world, and to defend in detail an epistemic conception of truth without falling into the usual epistemological relativism or classical idealism in which all properties of the world turn out to be linguistic in nature and origin. There is no other book available that clearly and thoroughly defends the case for an epistemic conception of truth and also claims success in avoiding idealism or epistemological relativism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 587g
• ISBN-13: 9781442205130
• ISBN-10: 144220513X
• Artikelnr.: 29842441

Autorenporträt

By Robert Almeder

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Part 1: Rejecting Correspondence and All Non-Epistemic Theories of
Truth Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Minimal Requirements for an
Adequate Theory of Truth Chapter 3: Justification for Non-Vacuity and
Reliability Principles Chapter 4: The Core of Correspondence and Other
Non-Epistemic Theories of Truth Chapter 5: The Main Argument Against
Correspondence and Other Non-Epistemic Theories of Truth Chapter 6: How the
Main Argument Differs From Other Similar Arguments Chapter 7: Forestalling
Three Predictable Objections to the Main Argument Chapter 8: Does the Main
Argument Confuse Chapter 9: Does the Main Argument Require Abandoning Truth
as a Goal? Chapter 10: An Objection from Common Sense Chapter 11: The
Objection from the Paradox of Analysis Chapter 12: A Proposed Reduction of
the Main Argument Part 2: In Defense of the Epistemic Theory of Truth
Chapter 1: Preliminary Objections to the Epistemic Theory of Truth Chapter
2: Other Objections to the Epistemic Theory of Truth Chapter 3: Conclusion
Part 3: Defeating Skepticism Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The Moral
of the Above Taxonomy Chapter 3: Self-Defeating Skepticisms and the
Strength of Global Weak Skepticism Chapter 4: The Canonical Argument for
Global Weak Skepticism and the Contextualist Response Chapter 5: Other
Critiques of Contextualism Chapter 6: The Asymmetry Objection to the
Argument from Ignorance Chapter 7: Global Weak Skepticism as an Inference
to the Best Explanation Chapter 8: Is the Global Skepticism here Refuted
Implied by the Main Argument? Part 4:Conclusions Chapter 1: The Main
Problem and Future Prospects Chapter 2: Blind realism and the Non-Vacuity
Objection Chapter 3: Does Blind Realism Presuppose Non-Epistemic Truth?
Chapter 4: The Fitch Objection Bibliography Index

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Few philosophers have thought as long and as hard about the issues of the truth and our knowledge of it as Robert Almeder. And as so often in philosophy, they way to insight proceeds most smoothly along the path of criticism. By critiquing virtually all of the influential present-day opponents of his views, Almder manages to provide a firm footing for his own persuasive and eminently instructive position. -- Micholas Rescher, University of Pittsburgh Those who take the epistemic account of truth to be a non-starter should read this compact book carefully. Almeder goes on the offense here, and develops a pragmatist epistemology farther than anyone has before. A must-read. -- Linda Alcoff, CUNY Grad Center The most sustained defense of an epistemic theory of truth available, coupled with a detailed response to various species of skepticism. Highly recommended as a gateway to contemporary debates on the nature of truth. -- Paul Humphreys, University of Virginia