Screen LibraryVarieties of skepticism : essays after kant, wittgenstein, and cavell /
This volume brings out the varieties of forms of philosophical skepticism that have continued to preoccupy philosophers for the past couple of centuries, as well as the specific varieties of philosophical response that these have engendered above all, in the work of those who have sought to take the...
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De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin : |
| Publication Dates: | [2014] |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin studies in knowledge research;
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| Summary: |
This volume brings out the varieties of forms of philosophical skepticism that have continued to preoccupy philosophers for the past couple of centuries, as well as the specific varieties of philosophical response that these have engendered above all, in the work of those who have sought to take their cue from Kant, Wittgenstein, or Cavell and to illuminate how these philosophical approaches are related to and bear upon one another. |
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1 online resource (vi, 458 pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9783110336795 |
| Index Number: | B2799 |
| CLC: | B516.31 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: From Kant to Cavell / Skepticism after Kant / Knowledge, Reasons, and Causes: Sellars and Skepticism / Why Do Our Reasons Come to an End? / Skepticism, Stroud, and the Contextuality of Knowledge / Finite Knowledge / The Hardness of the Soft: Wittgenstein s Early Thought About Skepticism / Skepticism in Interpretation / Interpretation: Everyday and Philosophical / Rule-Following Skepticism, Properly So Called / Inner Constancy, Outer Variation: Stanley Cavell on Grammar, Criteria, and Rules / The Normativity of the Natural / Tragedy and Skepticism: On Hamlet / Cavell, Skepticism, and the Idea of Philosophical Criticism / Cavell and Other Animals / Contributors -- Index of Persons. |