| Description |
xii, 610 p. ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
[The Oxford handbooks series] |
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Oxford handbooks.
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| Note |
Series from jacket. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The Pyrrhonian problematic / Markus Lammenranta -- The problem of the criterion / Richard Fumerton -- Cartesian skepticism : arguments and antecedents / Jose Luis Bermudez -- 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 -- 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 -- 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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Subject |
Skepticism.
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| Added Author |
Greco, John.
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| ISBN |
9780199836802 |
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0199836809 |
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9780195183214 |
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0195183215 |
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