Answering Scepticism
understanding understanding, understanding reason
$155.21
- Paperback
656 pages
- Release Date
22 April 2026
Summary
Vanquishing Doubt: A New Approach to Answering Skepticism
Answering Scepticism tackles the enduring challenges posed by Cartesian scepticism: the uncertainty surrounding our knowledge of the external world and our understanding of our immediate surroundings. These long-standing philosophical puzzles have fueled intense debate for centuries.
Tyler Burge offers a compelling and meticulously reasoned approach, highlighting a crucial point: skeptical challenges do not reveal kno…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198969341 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0198969341 |
| Author: | Tyler Burge |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 656 |
| Release Date: | 22 April 2026 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm |
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About The Author
Tyler Burge
Tyler Burge is Flint Professor of Philosophy, UCLA, where he has taught since 1971. He has held visiting positions at Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Munich, Bayreuth, Bologna, and Zurich. He has delivered numerous named lecture series, including the Locke Lectures, Dewey Lectures, Whitehead Lectures, Kant Lectures, Petrus Hispanus Lectures, and Nicod Lectures. His work has made contributions to philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of logic, and the history of philosophy. He has published four books: Origins of Objectivity (2010) and three volumes of essays, Truth, Thought, Reason (2005), Foundations of Mind (2007), Cognition through Understanding (2013), and Perception: First Form of Mind (2022).
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