Belief and Truth: A Skeptic Reading of Plato

by Katja Maria Vogt

Katja Maria Vogt's Belief and Truth: A Skeptic Reading of Plato explores a Socratic intuition about the difference between belief and knowledge. Beliefs -- doxai -- are deficient cognitive attitudes. In believing something, one accepts some content as true without knowing that it is true; one holds something to be true that could turn out to be false. Since our actions reflect what we hold to be true, holding beliefs is potentially harmful for oneself...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019027719X
• ISBN13: 9780190277192
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.3"