Unnatural Doubts: Epistemological Realism and the Basis of Skepticism

In Unnatural Doubts, Michael Williams constructs a masterly polemic against the very idea of epistemology, as traditionally conceived. Although philosophers have often found problems in efforts to study the nature and limits of human knowledge, Williams provides the first book that systematically argues against there being such a thing as knowledge of the external world. He maintains that knowledge of the world consitutes a theoretically coherent kind of knowledge, whose possibility needs to be defended, only given a deeply problematic doctrine he calls "epistemological realism." The only alternative to epistemological realism is a thoroughgoing contextualism.

Author: Michael Williams
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 01/11/1996
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 9.18h x 6.07w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780691011158

About the Author
Michael Williams is Morrison Professor of Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. He is the author of Groundless Beliefs.