{"product_id":"radical-skepticism-and-epistemic-intuition-hardcover","title":"Radical Skepticism and Epistemic Intuition - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael Bergmann\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRadical skepticism endorses the extreme claim that large swaths of our ordinary beliefs, such as those produced by perception or memory, are irrational. The best arguments for such skepticism are, in their essentials, as familiar as a popular science fiction movie and yet even seasoned epistemologists continue to find them strangely seductive. Moreover, although most contemporary philosophers dismiss radical skepticism, they cannot agree on how best to respond to the challenge it presents. In the tradition of the 18th century Scottish philosopher, Thomas Reid, \u003cem\u003eRadical Skepticism and Epistemic Intuition\u003c\/em\u003e joins this discussion by taking up four main tasks. First, it identifies the strongest arguments for radical skepticism, namely, underdetermination arguments, which emphasize the gap between our evidence and our ordinary beliefs based on that evidence. Second, it rejects all inferential or argument-based responses to radical skepticism, which aim to lay out good noncircular\u003cbr\u003ereasoning from the evidence on which we base our ordinary beliefs to the conclusion that those beliefs are probably true. Third, it develops a commonsense noninferential response to radical skepticism with two distinctive features: (a) it consciously and extensively relies on epistemic intuitions, which are seemings about epistemic goods, such as knowledge and rationality, and (b) it can be endorsed without difficulty by both internalists and externalists in epistemology. Fourth, and finally, it defends this commonsense epistemic-intuition-based response to radical skepticism against a variety of objections, including those connected with underdetermination worries, epistemic circularity, disagreement problems, experimental philosophy, and concerns about whether it engages skepticism in a sufficiently serious way.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael Bergmann, \u003cem\u003eProfessor of Philosophy, Purdue University\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMichael Bergmann is Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University. In addition to numerous articles in epistemology and philosophy of religion, he is the author of \u003cem\u003eJustification without Awareness\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP 2006), and co-editor of \u003cem\u003eDivine Evil? The Moral Character of the God of Abraham\u003c\/em\u003e (2011), \u003cem\u003eChallenges to\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eMoral and Religious Belief\u003c\/em\u003e (2014), \u003cem\u003eReason and Faith\u003c\/em\u003e (2016), and \u003cem\u003eIntellectual Assurance: Essays on Traditional Epistemic Internalism\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP 2016).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.88 x 9.53 x 6.11 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42728403599423,"sku":"9780192898487","price":171.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/1a386ac2274df8a5ed5208554c9b9e1c.webp?v=1765118378","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/radical-skepticism-and-epistemic-intuition-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}