Scepticism and the Foundation of Epistemology [Book Review]

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 61 (3):711-714 (2000)
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The problem of the criterion, by all accounts, is a metaepistemological problem concerning the possibility of a non-fallacious justification of a theory of knowledge. Roderick Chisholm, who maintained quite puzzlingly that one could only deal with the problem by begging the question, initiated its revival. Luciano Floridi, in his ambitious book, Scepticism and the Foundation of Epistemology, attempts to “deal” with the problem by offering a novel dissolution which, he argues, avoids the dual horns of begging the question and infinite regress. Floridi’s approach is “apagogic” or indirect and involves a dissolution by vindication.

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