Scepticism

Gascoigne explores the challenge to epistemology itself and considers twocontemporary responses the turn against foundationalist epistemology in favourof more n... » 

Gascoigne explores the challenge to epistemology itself and considers twocontemporary responses the turn against foundationalist epistemology in favourof more naturalistic conceptions of inquiry and the resistance to thisresponse by nonnaturalistically inclined philosophers. This contextualizationof the sceptical debate gives students a better appreciation of themethodological importance of sceptical reasoning an analytic understanding ofthe structure of sceptical arguments including an assessment of whether thetheoretical burden lies with the sceptic or antisceptic and an awareness ofthe significance of scepticism for other areas of philosophical inquiry. «