Skepticism and Rationality
FAIN: FS-10124-75
Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences (Stanford, CA 94305)
Keith Lehrer (Project Director: January 1975 to present)
To conduct a seminar in skepticism and rationality. To understand the intellectual motivation for skeptical argumentation in modern philosophy from Descartes to the present. The seminar will examine theories of rationality, both traditional and contemporary, that provide a motive for skepticism.