Publisher:New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-311) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Part 1, The response from semantic externalism -- Brains in a vat / Hilary Putnam -- Semantic answers to skepticism / Anthony Brueckner -- Realism and skepticism : brains in a vat revisited / Graeme Forbes -- A priori knowledge of the world : knowing the world by knowing our minds / Ted A. Warfield -- Part 2, Responses from epistemic externalism -- Philosophical scepticism and epistemic circularity / Ernest Sosa -- Process reliabilism and Cartesian scepticism / Christopher S. Hill -- Part 3, Relevant alternatives and denying closure -- Epistemic operators / Fred Dretske -- Skepticism, relevant alternatives, and deductive closure / Gail Stine -- Philosophical explanations (Selections) / Robert Nozick -- Part 4, Contextualist responses -- Solving the skeptical problem / Keith DeRose -- Elusive knowledge / David Lewis -- Part 5, Concessive responses -- Philosophical relativity (Selections) / Peter Unger -- The view from nowhere (Selections) / Thomas Nagel -- Scepticism, 'externalism", and the goal of epistemology / Barry Stroud.