The Mystery of Skepticism

New Explorations
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-39352-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 266 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: Brill Studies in Skepticism

The Mystery of Skepticism: New Explorations represents the cutting-edge of research on underexplored skeptical challenges, dimensions of the skeptical problematic, and responses to various kinds of skepticism. The thirteen newly commissioned essays, edited by Kevin McCain and Ted Poston, demonstrate that despite its long history philosophical reflection on skepticism and the challenges it poses is alive and well. The essays in The Mystery of Skepticism enhance our understanding of skepticism by breathing new life into old debates and sparking new ones. The Mystery of Skepticism will shape discussions of skepticism for years to come.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mccain, Kevin

Poston, Ted

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Logik, Argumentationstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Mittelalterliche & Scholastische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors

1 The Mystery of Skepticism: An Introduction

Kevin McCain and Ted Poston

Part I: Understanding Traditional Skeptical Arguments

2 Procedural Reasons and the Problem of the Criterion

Andrew D. Cling

3 Is Cartesian Skepticism Too Cartesian?

Jonathan Vogel

4 Hume’s Certain Doubts: Why We Should Worry Too

Kevin Meeker

5 Skepticism as a Way of Life

Baron Reed

Part II: New Skeptical Challenges

6 Disagreement Skepticism and the Rationality of Religious Belief

Jonathan Matheson

7 Pragmatist Anti-Skepticism: At What Price?

Scott Aikin and Thomas Dabay

8 Extraordinary Skepticism

Earl Conee

9 Internalism, Memory, and Skepticism

Brett Coppenger

10 Inferential Internalism and the Problem of Unconscious Inference

Richard Fumerton

11 The Philosopher’s Doom: Unreliable at Truth or Unreliable at Logic

Bryan Frances

Part III: New Responses to Skepticism

12 The Skill Model: A Response to Skepticism about the Intellectual Virtues

Sarah Wright

13 Two Strategies for Explaining Away Skepticism

Kevin McCain and Ted Poston

14 Reasoning One’s Way Out of Skepticism

Susanna Rinard

Über Autor(innen)

Kevin McCain, PhD (2012), University of Rochester, is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His published research includes Evidentialism and Epistemic Justification (Routledge, 2014) and The Nature of Scientific Knowledge: An Explanatory Approach (Springer, 2016).


Ted Poston, PhD (2006), University of Missouri-Columbia, is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the McCollough Institute for Pre-Medical Scholars at the University of Alabama. His published research includes Reason & Explanation: A Defense of Explanatory Coherentism (Palgrave, 2014) and A Contemporary Introduction to Knowledge-How (Bloomsbury, 2018).