Skepticism about the external world /

Skepticism about the external world /

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Author / Creator:	Butchvarov, Panayot, 1933-
Imprint:	New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 184 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Skepticism. Realism. Realism. Skepticism. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11107830

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ISBN:	0585211809 9780585211800 1280470399 9781280470394 0195117190 9780195117196
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-177) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	One of the most important and perennially debated philosophical questions is whether we can have knowledge of the external world. Butchvarov here considers whether and how scepticism with regard to such knowledge can be refuted or at least answered. He argues that only a direct realist view of perception has any hope of providing a compelling response to the sceptic and introduces the radical innovation that the direct object of perceptual, and even dreaming and hallucinatory, experience is always a material object, but not necessarily one that actually exists. This leads him to a metaphysics in which reality is ultimately constructed by human decisions out of objects that are ontologically more basic but which cannot be said in themselves to be either real or unreal.
Other form:	Print version: Butchvarov, Panayot, 1933- Skepticism about the external world. New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 1998 0195117190

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Physical Description:	1 online resource (viii, 184 pages)
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-177) and index.
ISBN:	0585211809 9780585211800 1280470399 9781280470394 0195117190 9780195117196