The skeptics : contemporary essays

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Contents: Preface Introduction Skepticism and foundations, Gilbert Harman What are we to say to the Carthesian Skeptic?, Michael Ayers Skepticism and justification, A.C. Grayling Is knowledge easy a or impossible? Externalism as the only alternative to Skepticism, James Van Cleve Three attempts to refute Skepticism and why they fail, Richard Foley How a Pyrrhonian Skeptic might respond to academic Skepticism, Peter Klein Skepticism, fallibility and circularity, Keith Lehrer Skepticism: what perception teaches, Fred Dretske Elusive knowledge, David Lewis Two diagnoses of Skepticism, Robert Fogelin Responding to the Skeptic: therapeutic versus theoretical diagnosis, Marie McGinn Neither Contextualism nor Skepticism, Ernest Sosa Indiscernability Skepticism, Steven Luper Brains in a vat, Hilary Putnam Trees, computer program features, and skeptical hypotheses, Anthony Brueckner Meta-skepticism: meditations in ethno-epistemology, Shaun Nichols, Stephen Stich and Jonathan M. Weinberg Scepticism and the social construction of science and technology: the case of the boundary layer, David Bloor Bibliography Index.

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