Unnatural Doubts
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
069101115X
ISBN 13
9780691011158
Category
Filosofie / Philosophy
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Publication Year
1995
Publisher
Pages
410
Abstract
In Unnatural Doubts, Michael Williams constructs a masterly polemic against the very idea of epistemology, as traditionally conceived. Although philosophers have often found problems in efforts to study the nature and limits of human knowledge, Williams provides the first book that systematically argues against there being such a thing as knowledge of the external world. He maintains that knowledge of the world consitutes a theoretically coherent kind of knowledge, whose possibility needs to be defended, only given a deeply problematic doctrine he calls "epistemological realism" The only alternative to epistemological realism is a thoroughgoing contextualism.
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