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The Place of Scepticism and Sceptical Arguments
By admin | January 1, 1970
posted by Ken Taylor
Today’s show will be about scepticism. Our guest will be John Greco of St. Louis University. I don’t really know John or his work, but I see that he has written a book called Putting Sceptics in their Place. That’s sort of what I want to talk about in this warm-up to the show post.
I should start with a confession about my philosophical tastes. I tend not to find epistemology the most gripping of philosophical subjects. Roughly, epistemology has to do with the nature of knowledge. And a big part of epistemology historically has been devoted to answering the sceptic who challenges us to say whether and how we can know anything at all. Sceptical arguments, I’m sure you will see as we do the show, are pretty seductive […]
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