Unnatural doubts : epistemological realism and the basis of scepticism
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Unnatural doubts : epistemological realism and the basis of scepticism
(Princeton paperbacks)
Princeton University Press, c1996
- : pbk
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. [360]-382) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
In Unnatural Doubts, Michael Williams constructs a masterly polemic against the very idea of epistemology, as traditionally conceived. Although philosophers have often found problems in efforts to study the nature and limits of human knowledge, Williams provides the first book that systematically argues against there being such a thing as knowledge of the external world. He maintains that knowledge of the world consitutes a theoretically coherent kind of knowledge, whose possibility needs to be defended, only given a deeply problematic doctrine he calls "epistemological realism." The only alternative to epistemological realism is a thoroughgoing contextualism.
目次
Contents Preface xii I Pessimism in Epistemology I 1.1 Unnatural Doubts? 1 1.2 Philosophy versus Common Life 2 1.3 The New Humeans 10 1.4 The Epistemologist's Dilemma 17 1.5 Unusual Questions 22 1.6 Definitive Refutation 31 1.7 The Burden of Theory 40 2 The Priority of Experience 47 2.1 Epistemology and Radical Scepticism 47 2.2 Scepticism and Epistemological Priority 51 2.3 Presupposition or By-product? 57 2.4 Agrippa's Trilemma 60 2.5 Knowledge and the Senses 68 2.6 The Neutrality of Experience 73 2.7 Sceptical Hypotheses 79 2.8 Dreaming and Knowing 84 3 Epistemological Realism 89 3.1 Generality and Epistemic Priority 89 3.2 Externalism and Traditional Epistemology 93 3.3 Knowledge as an Object of Theory 101 3.4 Explanation or Deflation? 3.5 Foundationalism 114 3.6 Methodological Necessity 121 3.7 Priority Reconsidered 125 3.8 Scepticism in Context 129 4 Examples and Paradigms 4.1 The Best-case Argument 4.2 Knowledge by Example 4.3 Generic and Specific 4.4 Knowing and Claiming 4.5 The Scope of Knowledge 4.6 Examples and Paradigms 161 4.7 Ordinary Language and Philosophical Diagnosis 166 5 Scepticism and Reflection 172 5.1 Philosophy as Reflective Understanding 172 5.2 Diagnosis and Disappointment 175 5.3 Reflection and Detachment 18 5.4 Relevant Alternatives and Epistemic Closure 185 5.5 The Two-factor Theory 191 5.6 Error and Estrangement 201 5.7 Practical Knowledge and Radical Doubt 205 5.8 Epistemology as Pure Inquiry 211 5.9 The Unreality of Knowledge 218 6 Scepticism and Objectivity 225 6.1 Realism and Scepticism 225 6.2 Truth and justification 228 6.3 Scepticism without Truth 237 6.4 Objectivity and Progress 217 6.5 Epistemology Naturalized 4 6.6 Truth and Context 7 Coherence and Truth 7.1 What is a Coherence Theory? 267 7.2 Radical Holism 267 7.3 Coherence and Explanation 272 7.4 Local and Global 279 7.5 Internalism and Epistemic Priority 292 7.6 Criterial justification 299 7.7 Scepticism and Charity 306 8 The Instability of Knowledge 317 8.1 Closure Again 317 8.2 Knowledge and Reliability 318 8.3 Context and Closure 322 8.4 Knowing and Telling 326 8.5 Relevant Alternatives 330 8.6 Tracking the Truth 336 8.7 Closure Regained 346 8.8 The Instability of Knowledge 350 8.9 The Humean Condition 355 Notes 360 Index 383
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