Thomas Reid and Scepticism: His Reliabilist Response (Routledge Studies in Eighteenth Century Philosophy, 3)

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Author(s): Philip De Bary
Year: 2002

Language: English
Pages: 224

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Analysis......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 14
Abbreviations and references......Page 16
Introduction......Page 18
Kinds of sceptic......Page 24
The attack on Cartesian foundationalism......Page 37
The first principles of contingent truths......Page 49
Reid's fallibilist/foundationalist mixture......Page 66
The structure of Reid's reliabilism......Page 81
The slippery slope......Page 107
Was Reid tilting at a straw man?......Page 122
Reid's further arguments against scepticism......Page 147
The Truth Claim......Page 169
Reid's theism reconsidered......Page 182
Reid's First Principles of Contingent Truths......Page 208
Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man, VI, chapter v (Facsimile excerpt from Reid's MS 2131/1/II/7)......Page 210
Bibliography......Page 212
Index......Page 218