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Subject(s)

• Skepticism—Handbooks, manuals, etc [Browse]

Editor

• Greco, John [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Handbooks and manuals [Browse]

Series

• Oxford handbooks. [More in this series]
• [The Oxford handbooks series]

Summary note

In the history of philosophical thought, few themes loom as large as skepticism. This text contains articles explaining important kinds of skeptical reasoning, focuses on responses to skeptical arguments, and concentrates on important contemporary issues revolving around skepticism.

Notes

Series from jacket.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Language note

English

Contents

• Varieties of skepticism and skeptical arguments
• Responses to skepticism
• Contemporary issues.
• Part I. Varieties of Skepticism and Skeptical Arguments The Pyrrhonian problematic / Markus Lammenranta
• The problem of the criterion / Richard Fumerton
• Cartesian skepticism : arguments and antecedents / José Luis Bermúdez
• Hume's skepticism / Michael Williams
• Skepticism about the external world / John Greco
• Skepticism about induction / Ruth Weintraub
• Skepticism about a priori justification : self-evidence, defeasibility, and cogito propositions / Robert Audi
• Moral realism, quasirealism, and skepticism / Terence Cuneo
• Religious skepticism / Paul K. Moser
• Live skeptical hypotheses / Bryan Frances
• Part II. Responses to Skepticism
• Berkeley's treatment of skepticism / George Pappas
• Kant's response to skepticism / Robert Stern
• Reid's response to the skeptic / James Van Cleve
• Peirce and skepticism / Christopher Hookway
• Moore and skepticism / Noah Lemos
• Austin's way with skepticism / Mark Kaplan
• Wittgenstein on certainty / Marie McGinn
• The relativist response to radical skepticism / Peter J. Graham
• Part III. Contemporary Issues
• Ascriber contextualism / Stewart Cohen
• Sensitivity, safety, and antiluck epistemology / Duncan Pritchard
• Closure and alternative possibilities / Jonathan Kvanvig
• Contemporary responses to Agrippa's trilemma / Peter Klein
• Externalist responses to skepticism / Michael Bergmann
• Internalist responses to skepticism / Jonathan Vogel
• Virtue-theoretic responses to skepticism / Guy Axtell
• Disjunctivism and skepticism / Alan Millar.

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Other title(s)

• Handbook of skepticism.
• Skepticism

ISBN

• 9780199892020
• 0199892024

LCCN

2007043349

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