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Contemporary philosophy is marked by a setting aside or dissolution of thetraditional problems of modern philosophy. Thus the problem of our knowledge ofthe external world is widely believed to have been disposed of or dissolved byWittgenstein and others. In this book Bruce Aune challenges this assumption.In the first half of Knowledge of the External World Aune considers thehistory of the problem in the work of the great modern philosophers DescartesLocke Berkeley Kant and Mill. Then turning to current debates he arguesthat the problem has reemerged and that an entirely new approach is needed. Byexamining the attempted dissolutions Aune shows that the fundamental problemremains as a serious intellectual issue one concerning the nature ofpermissible experimental or inductive inference. To resolve this issue heundertakes a revision of empiricist epistemology and the development of therequired theory of inference.Knowledge of the External World is an excellent historical systematic analysisof a central problem of philosophy and a fine introduction to the theory ofknowledge. It will be essential reading for students of epistemologymetaphysics and philosophy. «
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