Knowledge and skepticism /
There are two main questions in epistemology: What is knowledge? And: Do we have any of it? The first question asks after the nature of a concept; the second involves grappling with the skeptic, who believes that no one knows anything. This collection of original essays addresses the themes of knowl...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
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| Series: | Topics in contemporary philosophy.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=307683 |
Table of Contents:
- I Knowledge
- 1 Knowledge and Conclusive Evidence
- 2 Theorizing Justification
- 3 Truth Tracking and the Problem of Reflective Knowledge
- 4 Contextualism, Skepticism, and Warranted Assertibility Maneuvers
- 5 Knowledge In and Out of Context
- 6 Contextualism in Epistemology and the Context-Sensitivity of 'Knows'
- 7 Locke's Account of Sensitive Knowledge
- 8 Revelations: On What Is Manifest in Visual Experience
- 8 Knowing Hurts
- 10 Reasoning Defeasibily about Probabilities
- II Skepticism
- 11 Anti-Individualism, Self-Knowledge, and Why Skepticism Cannot Be Cartesian
- 12 Is There a Reason for Skepticism?
- 13 Skepticism Aside
- 14 Hume's Skeptical Naturalism.