Skepticism struck me as a crucial step toward becoming a serious adult. It also seemed the signature achievement of the ...

If you judged David Hume the man by his philosophy, you may judge him as disagreeable. He was a Scottish philosopher who epitomized what it means to be skeptical – to doubt both authority and the self ...

Michael Huemer (PhD, Rutgers, 1998) came to CU-Boulder in 1998 and works mainly in epistemology, ethics, and metaethics. Professor Huemer has written on such topics as philosophical skepticism, the ...

What follows is a very rough summary of some of the main responses to Cartesian Skepticism. It is not a substitute for the assigned texts on the topic. 1. The "Natural Belief" Strategy A "natural ...

Is there a distinctive type of “self-locating” uncertainty which concerns who one is or what time it is (as opposed to what the world is objectively like)? If so, how should such uncertainty be ...