How do I know?

M.F. Burnyeat

Testimony: A Philosophical Study by C.A.J. Coady
Oxford, 315 pp, £40.00, April 1993, ISBN 0 19 824786 9

Philosophy is alive and well – at least in Australia. Don’t listen to the windy voices who tell the public that metaphysics is dead, its foundational role exposed as an illusion, and that epistemology should never have begun. All it takes to show the futility of such talk is the example of someone who has found a genuine philosophical issue and who is able to discuss it with verve, ingenuity, insight, and a good sense of how the philosophical argument relates to controversial questions in neighbouring fields of inquiry.

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Vol. 15 No. 21 · 4 November 1993 » M.F. Burnyeat » How do I know? (print version)
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