Doubting

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Michael D. Roth, Glenn Ross

      Pages 1-10

3. Concessions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Are there Counterexamples to the Closure Principle?

      • Jonathan Vogel

      Pages 13-27

   3. Relevant Alternatives and Demon Scepticism

      • Bredo C. Johnsen

      Pages 29-37

   4. Arbitrary Reasons

      • Steven Luper-Foy

      Pages 39-55

   5. Metaepistemology and Skepticism

      • Richard Fumerton

      Pages 57-68

   6. Skepticism and Rationality

      • Richard Foley

      Pages 69-81

   7. Epistemic Universalizability: From Skepticism to Infallibilism

      • Jonathans E. Adler

      Pages 83-98

   8. Epistemic Compatibilism and Canonical Beliefs

      • Peter Klein

      Pages 99-117

4. Denials

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119

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   2. Klein on Certainty and Canonical Beliefs

      • Richard Feldman

      Pages 121-126

   3. Two Roads to Skepticism

      • Paul K. Moser

      Pages 127-139

   4. Justifying Beliefs: The Dream Hypothesis and Gratuitous Entities

      • Dorit Bar-On

      Pages 141-146

   5. Doubts About Skepticism

      • John Heil

      Pages 147-159

   6. Skepticism and Everyday Knowledge Attributions

      • Stewart Cohen

      Pages 161-169

   7. Knowledge in Context, Skepticism in Doubt: The Virtue of Our Faculties

      • Ernest Sosa

      Pages 171-182

   8. The Epistemology of Belief

      • Fred I. Dretske

      Pages 183-194

   9. Brains Don’t Lie: They Don’t Even Make Many Mistakes

      • Thomas Tymoczko

      Pages 195-213

5. Back Matter

   Pages 215-220

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During the summer of 1986 one of the co-editors was a fellow at the Summer Institute in Epistemology held at the University of Colorado in Boulder. It was there that the idea for this volume was born. It was clear from the discussions taking place at the i Institute that works such as Robert Nozick's Philosophical Explanations and Barry 2 Stroud's The Significance of Philosophical Scepticism were beginning to have an impact and it was also clear that the debate over the issues surrounding skepticism had not gone away nor were they about to go away. Thinking that a new crop might be ready for harvest, the co-editors sent out a letter of inquiry to a long list of potential contributors. The letter elicited an overwhelmingly positive response to our inquiry from philosophers who were either writing something on skepticism at the time or who were willing to write something specifically for our volume. Still others told us that they had recently written something and if we were to consider previously published manuscripts they would permit us to consider their already published work. Out of all this material, the co-editors have put together the present collection. We believe that this anthology is not only suitable for graduate seminars but for advanced undergraduate classes as well.

• epistemology
• idea
• knowledge
• reason
• scepticism

• Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, USA

  Michael D. Roth, Glenn Ross

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