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1 online resource |
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""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""I . TRANSCENDENTAL ARGUMENTS AGAINST SKEPTICISM""; ""1. Transcendental Arguments I""; ""2. Transcendental Arguments II""; ""3. The Anti-Skeptical Epistemology of the Refutation of Idealism""; ""4. Modest Transcendental Arguments""; ""5. Transcendental Arguments from Content Externalism""; ""6. Stroud�s ��Transcendental Arguments�� Reconsidered""; ""I I . SEMANTIC ANSWERS TO SKEPTICISM""; ""PART A: ON PUTNAM""; ""7. Brains in a Vat""; ""8. Semantic Answers to Skepticism"" |
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""9. Trees, Computer Program Features, and Skeptical Hypotheses""""10. Cartesian Skepticism, Content Externalism, and Self-Knowledge""; ""11. Terms of Envatment (with Jon Altschul)""; ""PART B: ON DAVIDSON""; ""12. Charity and Skepticism""; ""13. The Omniscient Interpreter Rides Again""; ""PART C: ON McDOWELL""; ""14. Singular Thought and Cartesian Philosophy""; ""III. SELF-KNOWLEDGE""; ""PART A: CONTENT EXTERNALISM AND SELF-KNOWLEDGE""; ""15. Scepticism about Knowledge of Content""; ""16. Knowledge of Content and Knowledge of the World""; ""17. Externalism and Memory"" |
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""PART B: THE McKINSEY PROBLEM""""18. What an Anti-Individualist Knows A Priori""; ""19. The Characteristic Thesis of Anti-Individualism""; ""20. Brewer on the McKinsey Problem""; ""21. Wright on the McKinsey Problem""; ""22. Externalism and Privileged Access Are Consistent""; ""23. The Resiliency of the McKinsey Problem""; ""IV. SKEPTICISM AND EPISTEMIC CLOSURE""; ""24. Epistemic Universalizability Principles""; ""25. Why Nozick is a Sceptic""; ""26. Skepticism and Epistemic Closure""; ""27. Unfair to Nozick""; ""28. Problems with the Wright Route to Skepticism"" |
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""29. The Structure of the Skeptical Argument""""30. Klein on Closure and Skepticism""; ""31. The Elusive Virtues of Contextualism""; ""32. Strategies for Refuting Closure for Knowledge""; ""33. Knowledge, Evidence, and Skepticism According to Williamson""; ""34. Fallibilism, Underdetermination, and Skepticism""; ""35. Some Comfort for the Closure Skeptic""; ""36. â??Kâ??SK""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Y""; ""Z"" |
| Summary |
Anthony Brueckner is recognized as one of the leading contemporary investigators of the problem of skepticism. This collection brings together Brueckner's most important work in this area, providing a connected and comprehensive guide to the complex state of play on this intensively studied area of philosophy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from home page (viewed Jan. 11, 2011) |
| Subject |
Skepticism.
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Skepticism
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191595332 |
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0191595330 |
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9780199585861 |
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0199585865 |
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9780199658268 |
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0199658269 |
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