[Review of the book Common Sense: a Contemporary Defense, by Nemos]

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Schmitter, Amy M.

• Introduction: Gone are the days when walking off a cliff, living in a bathtub, or inventing a new science would have seemed natural outgrowths of philosophical epistemology. Whether this reflects growing modesty or a lamentable failure of commitment, few contemporary philosophers would undertake the radical reforming projects that animated ancient skeptics, early modern natural philosophers, or nineteenth-century Idealists. And fewer yet would countenance a theory of knowledge that abjured the collective beliefs of certain important, non-philosophical communities (except those of Twin Earth or strange swamps). To this extent then, most epistemologists today can be said to respect the common knowledge of some community.

• Date created

  2005

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Epistemology
  • Book Reviews
  • Philosophy
  • Common Sense

• Type of Item

  Review

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3416TD4Z

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International