Skepticism
A Contemporary Reader
ISBN13: 9780195118278ISBN10: 0195118278
Paperback, 320 pages
Jan 1999,
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Table of Contents
1.
INTRODUCTION: RESPONDING TO SKEPTICISM
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1.
The Argument by Skeptical Hypothesis
2.
"Aw, Come On!"
3.
Moore's Response
4.
The Response from Semantic Externalism
5.
Responses from Epistemic Externalism
6.
Relevant Alternatives and Denying Closure
7.
Contextualist Responses
8.
Concessive Responses
PART ONE: THE RESPONSE FROM SEMANTIC EXTERNALISM
2.
Brains in a Vat
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3.
Semantic Answers to Skepticism
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4.
Realism and Skepticism: Brains in a Vat Revisited
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5.
A Priori Knowledge of the World: Knowing the World by Knowing Our Minds
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PART TWO: RESPONSES FROM EPISTEMIC EXTERNALISM
6.
Philosophical Scepticism and Epistemic Circularity
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7.
Process Reliabilism and Cartesian Scepticism
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PART THREE: RELEVANT ALTERNATIVES AND DENYING CLOSURE
8.
Epistemic Operators
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9.
Skepticism, Relevant Alternatives, and Deductive Closure
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10.
Selections from Philosophical Explanations
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PART FOUR: CONTEXTUALIST RESPONSES
11.
Solving the Skeptical Problem
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12.
Elusive Knowledge
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PART FIVE: CONCESSIVE RESPONSES
13.
Selections from Philosophical Relativity
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The Hypothesis of Philosophical Relativity
Aspects of Semantic Relativity
A Relativistic Approach to Some Philosophical Problems
14.
Selection from The View from Nowhere
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1.
Skepticism
2.
Antiskepticism
3.
Self-Transcendence
4.
Evolutionary Epistemology
5.
Rationalism
6.
Double Vision
15.
Scepticism, 'Externalism,' and the Goal of Inquiry
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