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Knowledge and Skepticism.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Topics in Contemporary Philosophy SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (383 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262265782
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Knowledge and SkepticismDDC classification:
  • 153.12
LOC classification:
  • BD161
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Framing Knowledge and Skepticism -- I Knowledge -- 1 Knowledge and Conclusive Evidence -- 2 Theorizing Justification -- 3 Truth Tracking and the Problem of Reflective Knowledge -- 4 Contextualism, Skepticism, and Warranted Assertibility Maneuvers -- 5 Knowledge In and Out of Context -- 6 Contextualism in Epistemology and the Context-Sensitivity of 'Knows' -- 7 Locke's Account of Sensitive Knowledge -- 8 Revelations: On What Is Manifest in Visual Experience -- 9 Knowing It Hurts -- 10 Reasoning Defeasibly about Probabilities -- II Skepticism -- 11 Anti-Individualism, Self-Knowledge, and Why Skepticism Cannot Be Cartesian -- 12 Is There a Reason for Skepticism? -- 13 Skepticism Aside -- 14 Hume's Skeptical Naturalism -- Contributors -- Index -- Insert.
Summary: New essays by leading philosophers explore topics in epistemology, offering both contemporary philosophical analysis and historical perspectives.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Framing Knowledge and Skepticism -- I Knowledge -- 1 Knowledge and Conclusive Evidence -- 2 Theorizing Justification -- 3 Truth Tracking and the Problem of Reflective Knowledge -- 4 Contextualism, Skepticism, and Warranted Assertibility Maneuvers -- 5 Knowledge In and Out of Context -- 6 Contextualism in Epistemology and the Context-Sensitivity of 'Knows' -- 7 Locke's Account of Sensitive Knowledge -- 8 Revelations: On What Is Manifest in Visual Experience -- 9 Knowing It Hurts -- 10 Reasoning Defeasibly about Probabilities -- II Skepticism -- 11 Anti-Individualism, Self-Knowledge, and Why Skepticism Cannot Be Cartesian -- 12 Is There a Reason for Skepticism? -- 13 Skepticism Aside -- 14 Hume's Skeptical Naturalism -- Contributors -- Index -- Insert.

New essays by leading philosophers explore topics in epistemology, offering both contemporary philosophical analysis and historical perspectives.

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