The result was a powerful current of skepticism with extraordinary consequences. Combined with late-seventeenth-century developments in other areas of thought a
How do we come to trust our knowledge of the world? What are the means by which we distinguish true from false accounts? Why do we credit one observational stat
This is the third edition of a classic book first published in 1960, which has sold thousands of copies in two paperback edition and has been translated into se
Skepticism is one of the most enduring and profound of philosophical problems. With its roots in Plato and the Sceptics to Descartes, Hume, Kant and Wittgenstei