Knowledge, doubt, and circularity

Synthese

Volumn 188, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 273-287

  Reed, Baron ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Certainty; Circularity; Descartes; Doubt; Epistemology; Knowledge; Skepticism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867096524     PISSN: 00397857     EISSN: 15730964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-011-9927-3     Document Type: Article

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