Skepticism
A Contemporary Reader
Edited by Keith DeRose and Ted A. Warfield
Table of Contents
1. INTRODUCTION: RESPONDING TO SKEPTICISM, Keith DeRose
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, Hilary Putnam
3. Semantic Answers to Skepticism, Anthony Brueckner
4. Realism and Skepticism: Brains in a Vat Revisited, Graeme Forbes
5. A Priori Knowledge of the World: Knowing the World by Knowing Our Minds, Ted A. Warfield
PART TWO: RESPONSES FROM EPISTEMIC EXTERNALISM
6. Philosophical Scepticism and Epistemic Circularity, Ernest Sosa
7. Process Reliabilism and Cartesian Scepticism, Christopher S. Hill
PART THREE: RELEVANT ALTERNATIVES AND DENYING CLOSURE
8. Epistemic Operators, Fred Dretske
9. Skepticism, Relevant Alternatives, and Deductive Closure, Gail Stine
10. Selections from Philosophical Explanations, Robert Nozick
PART FOUR: CONTEXTUALIST RESPONSES
11. Solving the Skeptical Problem, Keith DeRose
12. Elusive Knowledge, David Lewis
PART FIVE: CONCESSIVE RESPONSES
13. Selections from Philosophical Relativity, Peter Unger
The Hypothesis of Philosophical Relativity
Aspects of Semantic Relativity
A Relativistic Approach to Some Philosophical Problems
14. Selection from The View from Nowhere, Thomas Nagel
1. Skepticism
2. Antiskepticism
3. Self-Transcendence
4. Evolutionary Epistemology
5. Rationalism
6. Double Vision
15. Scepticism, 'Externalism,' and the Goal of Inquiry, Barry Stroud
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