This work is a full-scale historical and analytical study of the problem of criterion. The author devotes six chapters to this problem, tracing its history from the ancient sceptic, Sextus Empiricus, and following its path to Michel de Montaigne, Cardinal D.J. Mercier, Nicholas Rescher and Roderick Chisolm. The work argues that Sextus' ancient problem is different from its modern characterisation, and it also offers a dissolution to both problems and a critique of meta-epistemological scepticism. He shows that the influential views of Rescher and Chisolm are unable to handle the problem adequately.

Author Biography

Robert P. Amico is Associate Professor of Philosophy at St. Bonaventure University.