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Epistemic Angst

Radical Skepticism and the Groundlessness of Our Believing

Duncan Pritchard Duncan Pritchard

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English
Princeton University Pres
19 March 2019
Epistemic Angst offers a completely new solution to the ancient philosophical problem of radical skepticism-the challenge of explaining how it is possible to have knowledge of a world external to us.

Duncan Pritchard argues that the key to resolving this puzzle is to realize that it is composed of two logically distinct problems, each requiring

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Imprint:   Princeton University Pres
Country of Publication:   United States
Volume:   5
Dimensions:   Height: 235mm,  Width: 152mm, 
ISBN:   9780691183435
ISBN 10:   0691183430
Series:   Soochow University Lectures in Philosophy
Pages:   258
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Primary ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Duncan Pritchard is professor of philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, where he is the director of Eidyn: The Edinburgh Centre for Epistemology, Mind and Normativity. His books include Epistemic Luck and Epistemological Disjunctivism.

Reviews for Epistemic Angst: Radical Skepticism and the Groundlessness of Our Believing

Epistemic Angst will be a must-read for anyone interested in epistemology or Wittgenstein. I don't think there is anything about Wittgenstein's contribution to current epistemological debates that comes anywhere near this book. It provides a helpful survey of these debates and a very clear introduction to Wittgenstein's epistemology. Pritchard is an excellent writer with a gift for summarizing complicated debates, and his book will have a tremendous impact on the field. --Clayton Littlejohn, King's College London This is an outstanding book on issues of philosophical skepticism central to epistemology throughout its history. Writing lucidly and engagingly, Duncan Pritchard tackles these issues in the context of recent philosophy, going back to Wittgenstein's On Certainty. Pritchard also lays out and defends an original proposal in dialectic with well-known rivals, such as relativist contextualism, attributor contextualism, contrastivism, dogmatism, and others. --Ernest Sosa, Rutgers University [An] innovative, clearly written, and wide-ranging book.---Daniel Immerman, Grazer Philosophische Studien


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