Anthony Brueckner is recognized as one of the leading contemporary investigators of the problem of skepticism. This collection brings together Brueckner's most important work in this area, providing a connected and comprehensive guide to the complex state of play on this intensively studied area of philosophy. INDICE: Introduction; I. Transcendental Arguments against Skepticism; 1: Transcendental Arguments I; 2: Transcendental Arguments II; 3: The Anti-Skeptical Strategy of the Refutation of Idealism; 4: Modest Transcendental Arguments; 5: Transcendental Arguments from Content Externalism; 6: Stroud's 'Transcendental Arguments' Reconsidered; II. Semantic Answers to Skepticism; 7: Brainsin a Vat; 8: Semantic Answers to Skepticism; 9: Trees, Computer Program Features, and Skeptical Hypotheses; 10: Cartesian Skepticism, Content Externalism, and Self-Knowledge; 11: Terms of Envatment; 12: Charity and Skepticism; 13: The Omniscient Interpreter Rides Again; 14: Singular Thought and Cartesian Philosophy; III. Self-Knowledge; 15: Scepticism about Knowledge of Content; 16: Knowledge of Content and Knowledge of the World; 17: Externalism and Memory; 18: What an Anti-Individualist Knows A Priori; 19: The Characteristic Thesis of Anti-Individualism; 20: Brewer on the McKinsey Problem; 21: Wright on the McKinsey Problem; 22: Externalism and Privileged Access Are Consistent; 23: The Resiliency of the McKinsey Problem; IV. Skepticism and Epistemic Closure; 24: Epistemic Universalizability Principles; 25: Why Nozick is a Sceptic; 26: Skepticism and Epistemic Closure; 27: Unfair to Nozick; 28: Problems with the Wright Route to Scepticism; 29: The Structure of the Skeptical Argument; 30: Klein on Closure and Skepticism; 31: The Elusive Virtues of Contextualism; 32: Strategies for Refuting Closure for Knowledge; 33: Knowledge, Evidence, and SkepticismAccording to Williamso; 34: Fallibilism, Underdetermination, and Skepticism; 35: Some Comfort for the Closure Skeptic; 36: ~K~SK; Acknowledgements; Bibliography; Index
- ISBN: 978-0-19-958586-1
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 416
- Fecha Publicación: 19/08/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés