skepticism

Kant’s Prolegomena as an Argument Against Hume’s Skepticism

David Hume, epistemology, Immanuel Kant, philosophy, skepticism

Immanuel Kant is widely regarded as one of the most influential philosophers of the modern era. In his work, Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysic (full text), which is based upon and contains selections from his work, A Critique of Pure Reason, Kant argues that he has discovered a means by which one can escape the […]

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Ludwig Wittgenstein’s On Certainty, and how G.E. Moore Fails to Respond to the Skeptics

analytic philosophy, philosophy, skepticism, Wittgenstein

Beginning with Descartes, traditional forms of epistemology have attempted to create a foundation of knowledge that can not be doubted. The skeptical tradition, employing and developing Cartesian doubt among other variations of it, has sought to undermine the possibility certainty about the external world and, more generally, all knowledge. The philosopher G.E. Moore attempted to

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