Mark Walker

Outlines of Skeptical-Dogmatism (eBook, ePUB)

On Disbelieving Our Philosophical Views

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The ancient Pyrrhonian skeptics suspended judgment about all philosophical views. Their main opponents were the Dogmatists-those who believed their preferred philosophical views. In Outlines of Skeptical-Dogmatism: On Disbelieving Our Philosophical Views, Mark Walker argues, contra Pyrrhonians and Dogmatists, for a "darker" skepticism: that we should disbelieve our philosophical views. On the question of political morality, for example, we should disbelieve libertarianism, conservativism, socialism, liberalism, and any alternative ideologies. Since most humans have philosophical beliefs, such as about religious and political matters, humanity writ large should disbelieve their preferred philosophical views. Walker argues that Skeptical-Dogmatism permits a more realistic estimation of our epistemic powers. Dogmatists who believe their view is correct, while believing that two or more competing views are false, must-at least implicitly-take themselves to be "über epistemic superiors" to their disagreeing colleagues. Such a self-assessment is as implausible as it is hubristic. Skeptical-Dogmatism, in contrast, permits a more realistic and humbler epistemic self-conception. Walker also shows that there are no insuperable practical difficulties in living as a Skeptical-Dogmatist.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781666918892
• Artikelnr.: 68620229

Autorenporträt

Mark Walker is professor in the philosophy department at New Mexico State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: Skeptical-Dogmatism
Chapter 1: A Paradox About Our Epistemic Self-Conception: Are You an Über
Epistemic Superior?
Chapter 2: Na-Na, Na-Na, Boo-Boo, the Accuracy of Your Philosophical
Beliefs is Doo-Doo
Chapter 3: Noetic Skepticism
Chapter 4: Skeptical-Dogmatism and the External World
Chapter 5: Skeptical-Dogmatism and the Self-Undermining Objection
Part II: Against Skepticism and Dogmatism
Chapter 6: Against Skepticism
Chapter 7: Against Egalitarian Dogmatism
Chapter 8: Against Elitist Dogmatism
Chapter 9: The Ethics of Philosophical Belief
Part III: The Life of a Skeptical-Dogmatist
Chapter 10: The Lives of Skeptical-Dogmatists
Chapter 11: Philosophizing and Skeptical-Dogmatism
Chapter 12: Creative Gadflies