Moore and Wittgenstein. Scepticism, Certainty and Common Sense

It is argued that a philosophical “sceptic attitude”, found originally in the Socratic approach and arguably in the Pyrrhonist’s treatment of disagreement, should be taken to be an epistemically positive attitude in the ...

Uno de los cargos habituales contra el proyecto epistemológico cartesiano consiste en señalar que su principal objetivo (la superación de la duda escéptica) y los medios para alcanzarlo (la duda metódica) son incompatibles, ...

Starting from the view that to philosophise is to doubt, this paper compares Montaigne's scepticism to ancient scepticism. On the one hand, it is shown that elements from ancient scepticism are used by Montaigne, such as ...

Scepticism about climate change is still a popular trend, despite the existence of scientific evidence that this phenomenon is taking place, and that it is influencing the lives of millions of people around the world. The ...

The object of this dissertation is to analyse the concept of doubt in Descartes, in order to elucidate the roots of its constitution and determine the role played by scepticism in this process. By comparing Descartes with ...

It is sometimes claimed that conciliatory views on disagreement ultimately lead to either global or widespread scepticism. This is deemed to be a real problem for conciliationism either because scepticism of either kind ...