Skepticism : a contemporary reader
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Skepticism : a contemporary reader
Oxford University Press, c1999
- : pbk
Available at 14 libraries
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Bibliography: p. 305-311
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780195118261
Description
The ancient philosophical topic of scepticism has been the subject of some of the best and most provocative work in philosophy by both epistemologists and also by the world's leading philosophers working in other areas of the discipline. This book collects the most important contributions to each of the major approaches to scepticism that have dominated the recent discussion. It features essays by Anthony Brueckner, Keith DeRose, Fred Dretske, Graeme Forbes, Christopher Hill, David Lewis, Thomas Nagel, Robert Nozick, Hilary Putnam, Ernest Sosa, Gail Stine, Barry Stroud, Peter Unger, and Ted Warfield.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The response from semantic externalism: Hilary Putnam - brains in a vat
- Anthony Brueckner, semantic answers to skepticism
- Graeme Forbes, realism and skepticism - brains in a vat revisited
- Ted A. Warfield, a prior knowledge of the world - knowing the world by knowing our minds. Part 2 Responses from epistemic externalism: Ernest Sosa, philosophical skepticism and epistemic circularity
- Christopher S. Hill, process reliabilism and Cartesian skepticism. Part 3 Relevant alternatives and denying closure: Fred Dretske, epistemic operators
- Gail Stine, skepticism, relevant alternatives, and deductive closure
- Robert Nozick, selections from philosophical explanations. Part 4 contextualist responses: Keith DeRose, solving the skeptical problem
- David Lewis, elusive knowledge. Part 5 concessive responses
- Peter Unger, selections from philosophical relativity
- Thomas Nagel, selection from the view from nowhere
- Barry Stroud, skepticism, "Externalism", and the goal of inquiry.
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: pbk ISBN 9780195118278
Description
Recently, new life has been breathed into the ancient philosophical topic of scepticism. It has been the subject of some of the best and most provocative work in contemporary philosophy by both today's top epistemologists and also by the world's leading philosophers working in other areas of the discipline. This book collects the most important contributions to each of the major approaches to scepticism that have dominated the recent discussion. It features essays by
Anthony Brueckner, Keith DeRose, Fred Dretske, Graeme Forbes, Christopher Hill, David Lewis, Thomas Nagel, Robert Nozick, Hilary Putnam, Ernest Sosa, Gail Stine, Barry Stroud, Peter Unger, and Ted Warfield,
Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION: RESPONDING TO SKEPTICISM
- PART ONE: THE RESPONSE FROM SEMANTIC EXTERNALISM
- PART TWO: RESPONSES FROM EPISTEMIC EXTERNALISM
- PART THREE: RELEVANT ALTERNATIVES AND DENYING CLOSURE
- PART FOUR: CONTEXTUALIST RESPONSES
- PART FIVE: CONCESSIVE RESPONSES
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