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Michael Oakeshott's skepticism.
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ISBN: 9780691147178 Year: 2011 Publisher: Princeton Princeton university press

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Michael Oakeshott's skepticism
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ISBN: 128282113X 9786612821134 1400836956 9781400836956 9781282821132 9780691147178 0691147175 Year: 2011 Publisher: Princeton Princeton University Press

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The English philosopher Michael Oakeshott (1901-1990) is known as a conservative who rejected philosophically ambitious rationalism and the grand political ideologies of the twentieth century on the grounds that no human ideas have ultimately reliable foundations. Instead, he embraced tradition and habit as the guides to moral and political life. In this book, Aryeh Botwinick presents an original account of Oakeshott's skepticism about foundations, an account that newly reveals the unity of his thought. Botwinick argues that, despite Oakeshott's pragmatic conservatism, his rejection of all-embracing intellectual projects made him a friend to liberal individualism and an ally of what would become postmodern antifoundationalism. Oakeshott's skepticism even extended paradoxically to skepticism about skepticism itself and is better described as a "generalized agnosticism." Properly conceived and translated, this agnosticism ultimately evolves into mysticism, which becomes a bridge linking philosophy and religion. Botwinick explains and develops this strategy of interpretation and then shows how it illuminates and unifies the diverse strands of Oakeshott's thought in the philosophy of religion, metaphysics, epistemology, political theory, philosophy of personal identity, philosophy of law, and philosophy of history.


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The agnostic age : law, religion, and the Constitution
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ISBN: 0199895260 128311626X 9786613116260 0199876304 9780199895267 Year: 2011 Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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The Agnostic Age: Law, Religion, and the Constitution is a book for lawyers, law professors, law students, lawmakers, and any citizen who cares about church-state conflict and about the relationship between religion and liberal democracy.


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Reasons for belief
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ISBN: 9781107006874 9780511977206 9781107540484 9781139042703 113904270X 9781139045339 1139045334 0511977204 1107006872 1107227607 1139036467 1283127199 9786613127198 1139041924 1139041150 1139038788 1107540488 9781107227606 9781139036467 9781283127196 6613127191 9781139041928 9781139041157 9781139038782 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Philosophers have long been concerned about what we know and how we know it. Increasingly, however, a related question has gained prominence in philosophical discussion: what should we believe and why? This volume brings together twelve new essays that address different aspects of this question. The essays examine foundational questions about reasons for belief, and use new research on reasons for belief to address traditional epistemological concerns such as knowledge, justification and perceptually acquired beliefs. This book will be of interest to philosophers working on epistemology, theoretical reason, rationality, perception and ethics. It will also be of interest to cognitive scientists and psychologists who wish to gain deeper insight into normative questions about belief and knowledge.


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Liberi di non credere
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ISBN: 9788835990642 8835990645 Year: 2011 Publisher: [Roma] : Editori internazionali riuniti,

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New essays on ancient pyrrhonism
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ISSN: 00791687 ISBN: 9789004207769 9004207767 9786613162021 1283162024 9004207775 9789004207776 Year: 2011 Volume: 126 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill

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Scholarship on ancient Pyrrhonism has made tremendous advances over the past three decades, thanks especially to the careful reexamination of Sextus Empiricus’ extant corpus. Building on this momentum, the authors of the eight essays collected here examine some of the most vexed and intriguing exegetical and philosophical questions posed by Sextus’ presentation of this form of skepticism. The essays explore in a new light the skeptical interpretation of Plato, the differences between Pyrrhonism and Cyrenaicism, the Pyrrhonist’s stance on ordinary life, religion, language, and ethics, Sextus’ discussion of our access to our own mental states, and the relationship between Pyrrhonism and epistemic internalism and externalism. These new essays represent a substantial contribution to the advancement of scholarship on Pyrrhonian skepticism.


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Belief and agency.
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ISBN: 9780919491359 0919491359 Year: 2011 Volume: 35 Publisher: Calgary University of Calgary press

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Aristotle famously said that humans are rational animals and distinguished two forms or kinds of human rationality. Practical rationality strives to answer questions about how to live and about what sort of person one should be. It deals with human action and the will. Theoretical rationality strives to answer questions about the nature of our world and our place in it. It deals with human knowledge and understanding. Philosophical work on rationality attempts to understand the similarities, differences, and relations between these forms of reasoning. In this valuable collection, eleven distinguished scholars explore philosophical conceptions of the relation between belief, on the one hand, and intention and action, on the other.


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De hoer van de duivel : illusies en godsgeloof
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ISBN: 9789033484551 Year: 2011 Publisher: Leuven Den Haag Acco

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The predicament of belief : science, philosophy, faith.
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ISBN: 9780199695270 019969527X 0191731943 Year: 2011 Publisher: New York Oxford university press

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