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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2012
      02 June 2008
      ISBN:
      9780511812842
      9780521898126
      9780521726399
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511812842
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.36kg, 180 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.27kg, 180 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Logic, Philosophy
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    Book description

    One of the questions that philosophers discuss is: How can we avoid, or at least reduce, errors when explaining the world? The skeptical answer to this question is: We cannot avoid errors since no statement is certain or even definitely plausible, but we can eliminate some past errors. This book advocates the skeptical position and discusses its practical applications in science, ethics, aesthetics, and politics. It brings philosophy down to earth and comprises an outline of a skeptical guide to the real world.

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    Contents

    Contents
    References
    Further Reading
    Bibliography
    Agassi, Joseph, The Siblinghood of Humanity.
    Agassi, Joseph and Agassi, Aaron, The Continuing Revolution: A History of Physics From The Greeks to Einstein.
    Albert, Hans, Treatise on Critical Reason.
    Asimov, Isaac, I, Robot.
    Bacon, Francis, Essays.
    Borges, Jorge Louis, Labyrinths.
    Bronowski, Jacob, Science and Human Values.
    Bunge, Mario, Metascientific Queries.
    Descartes, René. Meditations.
    Einstein, Albert, “Physics and reality”, in his Ideas and Opinions.
    Feyerabend, Paul, Science without Foundations.
    Freud, Sigmund, Civilization and Its Discontent.
    Gellner, Ernest, Relativism and the Social Sciences.
    Gilson, Etienne, Heloise and Abelard.
    Hart, H. L. A., Law, Liberty and Morality.
    Heine, Heinrich, Religion and Philosophy in Germany.
    Hume, David, Essays, Moral, Political and Literary.
    Jarvie, Ian Charles, The Revolution in Anthropology.
    Lakatos, Imre, Proofs and Refutations.
    Malinowski, Bronislaw, Magic, Science and Religion.
    Meidan, Abraham, Skepticism is True.
    Oakeshott, Michael, Rationalism in Politics.
    Plato, , The Apology of Socrates.
    Popper, Karl, The Open Society and Its Enemies.
    Russell, Bertrand, The Problems of Philosophy.
    Russell, Bertrand, Mysticism and Logic.
    Russell, Bertrand, Skeptical Essays.
    Schrödinger, Erwin, Science and the Humanities.
    Wiener, Norbert, God and Golem Inc.: A Comment on Certain Points where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion.
    Wisdom, John O, Foundations of Inference in Natural Science.
    Wisdom, John O, Philosophy and Psycho-Analysis.
    Hume, David. A Treatise of Human Nature. Edited by Norton, David Fate and Norton, Mary J., Oxford University Press, 2000.
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    Naess, Arne. Skepticism. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1968.
    Oakeshott, Michael. The Politics of Faith and the Politics of Scepticism. Edited by Fuller, Timothy, Yale University Press, 1996.
    Popkin, , Richard, H.The History of Skepticism: From Savonarola to Bayle. Revised edition, Oxford University Press, 2003.
    Santayana, George. Scepticism and Animal Faith. First published 1923; reprinted by Kessinger, 2005.
    Sinnott-Armstrong, W., and Timmons, M. (eds.). New Readings in Moral Epistemology, Oxford University Press, 1996.

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