Contains the best recent work on skepticism by several of the world`s leading philosophers
Includes a helpful Introduction that explains the problem of skepticism and the main approaches to the problem

Recently, new life has been breathed into the ancient philosophical topic of scepticism. It has been the subject of some of the best and most provocative work in contemporary philosophy by both today`s top epistemologists and also by the world`s leading philosophers working in other areas of the discipline. This book collects the most important contributions to each of the major approaches to scepticism that have dominated the recent discussion. It features essays by Anthony Brueckner, Keith DeRose, Fred Dretske, Graeme Forbes, Christopher Hill, David Lewis, Thomas Nagel, Robert Nozick, Hilary Putnam, Ernest Sosa, Gail Stine, Barry Stroud, Peter Unger, and Ted Warfield,

Contents
1. INTRODUCTION: RESPONDING TO SKEPTICISM , 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

2. Brains in a Vat , Hilary Putnam
3. Semantic Answers to Skepticism , Anthony Brueckner
4. Realism and Skepticism: Brains in a Vat Revisited , Graeme Forbes
5. A Priori Knowledge of the World: Knowing the World by Knowing Our Minds , Ted A. Warfield
PART TWO: RESPONSES FROM EPISTEMIC EXTERNALISM

6. Philosophical Scepticism and Epistemic Circularity , Ernest Sosa
7. Process Reliabilism and Cartesian Scepticism , Christopher S. Hill
PART THREE: RELEVANT ALTERNATIVES AND DENYING CLOSURE

8. Epistemic Operators , Fred Dretske
9. Skepticism, Relevant Alternatives, and Deductive Closure , Gail Stine
10. Selections from Philosophical Explanations , Robert Nozick
PART FOUR: CONTEXTUALIST RESPONSES

11. Solving the Skeptical Problem , Keith DeRose
12. Elusive Knowledge , David Lewis
PART FIVE: CONCESSIVE RESPONSES

13. Selections from Philosophical Relativity , Peter Unger
The Hypothesis of Philosophical Relativity
Aspects of Semantic Relativity
A Relativistic Approach to Some Philosophical Problems
14. Selection from The View from Nowhere , Thomas Nagel
1. Skepticism
2. Antiskepticism
3. Self-Transcendence
4. Evolutionary Epistemology
5. Rationalism
6. Double Vision
15. Scepticism, `Externalism,` and the Goal of Inquiry , Barry Stroud
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