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Doubting

Contemporary Perspectives on Skepticism

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  • © 1990

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Editors:
  1. Michael D. Roth

    1. Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, USA

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  2. Glenn Ross

    1. Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, USA

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Part of the book series: Philosophical Studies Series (PSSP, volume 48)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  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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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, USA

    Michael D. Roth, Glenn Ross

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Doubting

  • Book Subtitle: Contemporary Perspectives on Skepticism

  • Editors: Michael D. Roth, Glenn Ross

  • Series Title: Philosophical Studies Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1942-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1990

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-0576-7Published: 31 December 1989

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-7367-7Published: 05 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-1942-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0921-8599

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8349

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 220

  • Topics: Epistemology

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