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100 1 $aPopkin, Richard H.$q(Richard Henry),$d1923-2005.
245 10 $aSkeptical philosophy for everyone /$cRichard H. Popkin & Avrum Stroll.
260 $aAmherst, N.Y. :$bPrometheus Books,$c2002.
300 $a342 pages ;$c24 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tWhy Do People Philosophize? --$tDoes Anyone Ever Know Anything? --$tModern Skepticism --$tThe Twentieth Century --$tPhilosophy of Religion --$tEthics --$tPolitical Philosophy --$tSkepticism Today: A Debate between Avrum Stroll and Richard H. Popkin.
520 $aAn outstanding introduction to the problems of philosophy by two eminent philosophers in a lucid, informal, & very accessible discussion of Western thought. Annotation. Casting skepticism in a central role, this history of Western philosophy looks at the efforts of major thinkers seeking to overcome skeptical challenges. The role of skepticism in producing new theoretical positions is explicated, and the influence of contemporary skeptics examined. The relative merits of skeptical claims are also debated. Popkin taught philosophy at Washington University. This lucid, informal, and very accessible discussion of Western thought takes the unique approach of interpreting skepticism -- i.e., doubts about knowledge claims and the criteria for making such claims -- as an important stimulus for the development of philosophy. The authors argue that practically every great thinker from the time of the Greeks to the present has produced theories designed to forestall or refute skepticism: from Plato to Moore and Wittgenstein. The influence of and responses to such 20th-century skeptics such as Russell and Derrida are also discussed critically. Popkin and Stroll review each major theory of philosophy chronologically and then further organize these theories into their respective subject areas: metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, political philosophy, and philosophy of religion. This is an outstanding introduction to the problems of philosophy by two eminent philosophers with a gift for presenting the history of ideas in a very lively and clear style.
650 0 $aSkepticism.
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