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1 online resource (295 pages)
ISBN:
9780192653574
Content:
This book explores the varieties of radical skepticism and different ways of responding to them. It focuses on arguments for radical skepticism that emphasize the gap between our evidence and our ordinary beliefs based on that evidence.
Content:
Cover -- Radical Skepticism and Epistemic Intuition -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1: Introduction -- 1. The Importance of Radical Skepticism -- 2. An Overview of the Book -- 3. Clarifications of Some Key Concepts -- 3.1 Skepticism -- 3.2 Justification -- 3.3 Evidence -- Part I: Underdetermination and Inferential Anti-Skepticism -- 2: Underdetermination and Perceptual Skepticism -- 1. Arguments and Responses: Narrowing the Focus -- 1.1 Rightly Discerning Skepticism's Appeal -- 1.2 Arguments and Responses that Overestimate Skepticism's Appeal -- 1.3 Responses that Underestimate Skepticism's Appeal -- 2. An Underdetermination Argument against Perception -- 2.1 The Argument -- 2.2 The Appeal of Premise 1 -- 2.3 The Appeal of Premise 5 -- 2.4 A Misguided Response -- 3: Inferential Anti-skepticism about Perception -- 1. Deductive Anti-skepticalArguments -- 2. Some Not-so-popular Nondeductive Anti-skepticalArguments -- 3. Anti-skeptical Arguments Relying on IBE -- 4. Is the Standard Hypothesis the Best Explanation? -- 5. Is the Standard Hypothesis Sufficiently Good? -- 4: Global and Memory Skepticism -- 1. The Direct Case for Global Skepticism -- 1.1 The Self-underminingObjection to Arguments for Global Skepticism -- 1.2 The Regress Argument -- 1.3 The Prior Verification Argument -- 2. The Piecemeal (Underdetermination-based) Case for Global Skepticism -- 2.1 The Aim of Discussing the Piecemeal Case -- 2.2 The Self-underminingObjection Again -- 2.3 Responding to the Self-underminingObjection -- 2.4 Developing the Piecemeal Case in Light of the Self-underminingObjection -- 3. Underdetermination Worries About Memory -- 3.1 The Basis of and Evidence for Our Memory Beliefs -- 3.2 An Underdetermination Argument against Memory -- 3.3 Inferential Anti-skepticismabout Memory.
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Additional Edition:
9780192898487
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe 9780192898487
Language:
English
