| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 242 pages) |
| Series |
The Problems of philosophy |
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Problems of philosophy (Routledge (Firm))
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| Contents |
Chapter 1 Descartes and the Method of Doubt -- chapter 2 Critical Remarks on the Method of Doubt -- chapter 3 Descartes' Cogito -- chapter 4 Descartes' Fundamental Principles -- chapter 5 The Development of Descartes' System -- chapter 6 Descartes' Approach to the External World -- chapter 7 Criticisms and Prospects -- chapter 1 Locke on Knowledge -- chapter 2 Locke on Judgment and Opinion -- chapter 3 Locke on the Nature of External Objects -- chapter 4 Berkeley on Secondary Qualities -- chapter 5 Berkeley on Primary Qualities -- chapter 6 Berkeley's Idealism -- chapter 1 Hume's Epistemic Principles -- chapter 2 Hume on Experimental Inference -- chapter 3 Hume and the Road to Solipsism -- chapter 4 Hume's Attitude to Skepticism -- part IV Kant and Phenomenalism -- chapter 1 Kant's Classification of Knowledge -- chapter 2 Kant's Copernican Revolution -- chapter 3 More on Objects of Experience -- chapter 4 Kant's Transcendental Deduction -- chapter 5 Some Categories and Principles -- chapter 6 Kant's Transcendental Idealism -- chapter 7 Remarks on Kant's Epistemology -- chapter 8 Phenomenalism -- chapter 1 Prelude to the -- chapter 2 Wittgenstein's Argument -- chapter 3 On the Common-sense Basis of Wittgenstein's Argument -- chapter 4 Reinventing the Problem -- chapter 5 A Problem About the Self -- chapter 6 Is Reference to a Self Inevitable? -- chapter 7 On Basic Epistemic Principles -- chapter 1 Problems with an Analytic-Synthetic Distinction -- chapter 2 A Pragmatic Approach to Analyticity -- chapter 3 Observation -- chapter 4 Experimental Inference: Some Problems -- chapter 5 Some Suggested Strategies -- chapter 6 Bayesian Induction -- chapter 7 Applying Bayes' Theorem -- chapter 8 Inductive Probability: An Interpretation -- chapter 9 Prospect -- chapter 1 Hume's Problem and its Successors -- chapter 2 Chisholm's -- chapter 3 Justification by -- chapter 4 Standards, Ends, and Justification -- chapter 5 Uninferred Premisses and Intellectual Bootstrapping -- chapter 6 Inferring the Existence of the External World -- chapter 7 On Scientific Realism |
| Summary |
Many philosophers believe that the traditional problem of our knowledge of the external world was dissolved by Wittgestein and others. They argue that it was not really a problem - just a linguistic ̀confusion' that did not actually require a solution. Bruce Aune argues that they are wrong. He casts doubt on the generally accepted reasons for putting the problem aside and proposes an entirely new approach. By considering the history of the problem from Descartes to Kant, Aune shows that analogous arguments create difficulties for the contemporary philosophical consensus. He makes it clear that |
| Analysis |
Knowledge |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-239) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Knowledge, Theory of.
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Other minds (Theory of knowledge)
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Ontology.
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Other (Philosophy)
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epistemology.
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ontologies (vocabularies)
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ontology (metaphysics)
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PHILOSOPHY -- Epistemology.
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Other (Philosophy)
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Knowledge, Theory of
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Ontology
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Other minds (Theory of knowledge)
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Kennistheorie.
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Buitenwereld.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
90048550 |
| ISBN |
0203027620 |
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9780203027622 |
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9780415047470 |
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0415047471 |
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1134946236 |
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9781134946235 |
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1280478500 |
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9781280478505 |
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9786610478507 |
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6610478503 |
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1134946228 |
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9781134946228 |
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