Ignorance: A Case for Scepticism (Clarendon Library of Logic & Philosophy) - Hardcover

Unger, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198244088 ISBN 13: 9780198244080

Publisher: Clarendon Press, 1975

Synopsis

In these challenging pages, Unger argues for the extreme skeptical view that, not only can nothing ever be known, but no one can ever have any reason at all for anything. A consequence of this is that we cannot ever have any emotions about anything: no one can ever be happy or sad aboutanything. Finally, in this reduction to absurdity of virtually all our supposed thought, he argues that no one can ever believe, or even say, that anything is the case.

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Review

Oxford University Press has done well to reissue Ignorance, Peter Unger's first book in epistemology. Unger follows the argument to great depth, wherever it may lead, and the reader who follows along will be amply rewarded, which shows how impressively fresh and relevant this work remains after all these years. (Ernest Sosa, Brown University and Rutgers University)

About the Author

Peter Unger is Professor of Philosophy at New York University. He is the author of Philosophical Relativity (1984, OUP 2002), Identity, Consciousness, and Value (OUP 1990), and Living High and Letting Die (OUP 1996).

Edition details

• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Publication date: 1975
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198244088
• ISBN 13: 9780198244080
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336