Yes, But How Do You Know?: Introducing Philosophy Through Sceptical Ideas

Stephen Hetherington

09.2009 г. · Broadview Press

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Yes, But How Do You Know? is an invitation to think philosophically through the use of sceptical ideas. Hetherington challenges our complacency and asks us to reconsider what we think we know. How much can we discover about our surroundings? What sort of beings are we? Can we trust our own reasoning? Is science all it is cracked up to be? Can we acquire knowledge of God? Are even the contents of our own minds transparent? In inviting, lucid prose, Hetherington addresses these questions and more, using scepticism to illuminate many perennial philosophical puzzles.

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Stephen Hetherington is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales. He is the author of many books on epistemology, including Self-Knowledge: Beginning Philosophy Right Here and Now (Broadview, 2007) and Knowledge Puzzles: An Introduction to Epistemology (Westview, 1996).