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Tables of Contents for Skepticism
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Chapter 1 Introduction: Responding to Skepticism
1
26
Keith DeRose
1. The Argument by Skeptical Hypothesis
2. "Aw, Come On!"
3. Moore's Response
4. The Response from Semantic Externalism
5. Responses from Epistemic Externalism
6. Relevant Alternatives and Denying Closure
7. Contextualist Responses
8. Concessive Responses
PART ONE The Response from Semantic Externalism
27
66
Chapter 2 Brains in a Vat
27
16
Hilary Putnam
Chapter 3 Semantic Answers to Skepticism
43
18
Anthony Brueckner
Chapter 4 Realism and Skepticism: Brains in a Vat Revisited
61
15
Graeme Forbes
Chapter 5 A Priori Knowledge of the World: Knowing the World by Knowing Our Minds
76
17
Ted A. Warfield
PART TWO Responses From Epistemic Externalism
93
38
Chapter 6 Philosophical Scepticism and Epistemic Circularity
93
22
Ernest Sosa
Chapter 7 Process Reliabilism and Cartesian Scepticism
115
16
Christopher S. Hill
PART THREE Relevant Alternatives and Denying Closure
131
52
Chapter 8 Epistemic Operators
131
14
Fred Dretske
Chapter 9 Skepticism, Relevant Alternatives, and Deductive Closure
145
11
Gail Stine
Chapter 10 Philosophical Explanations (Selections)
156
27
Robert Nozick
PART FOUR Contextualist Responses
183
60
Chapter 11 Solving the Skeptical Problem
183
37
Keith DeRose
Chapter 12 Elusive Knowledge
220
23
David Lewis
PART FIVE Concessive Responses
243
62
Chapter 13 Philosophical Relativity (Selections)
243
29
Peter Unger
The Hypothesis of Philosophical Relativity
Aspects of Semantic Relativity
A Relativistic Approach to Some Philosophical Problems
Chapter 14 The View from Nowhere (Selections)
272
20
Thomas Nagel
1. Skepticism
2. Antiskepticism
3. Self-Transcendence
4. Evolutionary Epistemology
5. Rationalism
6. Double Vision
Chapter 15 Scepticism, `Externalism', and the Goal of Epistemology
292
13
Barry Stroud
Bibliography
305
7
Index
312