Acceptable Premises by James B. Freeman PAPERBACK 9780521540605

Acceptable Premises\nby James B. Freeman\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: James B. Freeman\nTitle: Acceptable Premises\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Western philosophy from c 1800\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nPublication year: 2004\nISBN-13: 9780521540605\nISBN-10: 0521540607\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nWhen, if ever, is one justified in accepting the premises of an argument? What is the proper criterion of premise acceptability? Can the criterion be theoretically or philosophically justified? This is the first book to provide a comprehensive theory of premise acceptability and it answers the questions above from an epistemological approach that the author calls common sense foundationalism. It will be eagerly sought out not just by specialists in informa.