Skepticism : a contemporary reader

Abstract

List of Contributors Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION: RESPONDING TO SKEPTICISM 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 3. Semantic Answers to Skepticism 4. Realism and Skepticism: Brains in a Vat Revisited 5. A Priori Knowledge of the World: Knowing the World by Knowing Our Minds PART TWO: RESPONSES FROM EPISTEMIC EXTERNALISM 6. Philosophical Skepticism and Epistemic Circularity 7. Process Reliabilism and Cartesian Skepticism PART THREE: RELEVANT ALTERNATIVES AND DENYING CLOSURE 8. Epistemic Operators 9. Skepticism, Relevant Alternatives, and Deductive Closure 10. Selections from Philosophical Explanations PART FOUR: CONTEXTUALIST RESPONSES 11. Solving the Skeptical Problem 12. Elusive Knowledge PART FIVE: CONCESSIVE RESPONSES 13. Selections from Philosophical Relativity 14. Selection from The View from Nowhere 15. Skepticism, 'Externalism,' and the Goal of Inquiry Bibliography Index

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