ACKNOWLEDGING A HIDDEN GOD: A THEOLOGICAL CRITIQUE OF STANLEY CAVELL ON SCEPTICISM

In his early work, the philosopher Stanley Cavell offers a sustained engagement with the threat of epistemological scepticism, shaped by the intuition that although (as the late Wittgenstein shows) ordinary language use is the practice within which alone meaning is possible (and which can thus not b...

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Main Author: Tonning, Judith E. (Author)
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2007
In: Heythrop journal
Year: 2007, Volume: 48, Issue: 3, Pages: 384-405
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