Varieties of Skepticism
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This volume brings out the varieties of forms of philosophical skepticism that have continued to preoccupy philosophers for the past of couple of centuries, as well as the specific varieties of philosophical response that these have engendered - above all, in the work of those who have sought to take their cue from Kant, Wittgenstein, or Cavell - and to illuminate how these philosophical approaches are related to and bear upon one another. The philosophers brought together in this volume are united by the thought that a proper appreciation of the depth of the skeptical challenge must reveal it to be deeply disquieting, in the sense that skepticism threatens not just some set of theoretical commitments, but also-and fundamentally-our very sense of self, world, and other. Second, that skepticism is the proper starting point for any serious attempt to make sense of what philosophy is, and to gauge the prospects of philosophical progress.
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2 - Part I: After Kant [Seite 23]
2.1 - Skepticism after Kant [Seite 25]
2.2 - Knowledge, Reasons, and Causes: Sellars and Skepticism [Seite 65]
2.3 - Why Do Our Reasons Come to an End? [Seite 87]
2.4 - Skepticism, Stroud, and the Contextuality of Knowledge [Seite 111]
2.5 - Finite Knowledge [Seite 129]
3 - Part II: After Wittgenstein [Seite 149]
3.1 - The Hardness of the Soft: Wittgenstein's Early Thought About Skepticism [Seite 151]
3.2 - Skepticism in Interpretation [Seite 189]
3.3 - Interpretation: Everyday and Philosophical [Seite 221]
3.4 - Rule-Following Skepticism, Properly So Called [Seite 255]
4 - Part III: After Cavell [Seite 295]
4.1 - Inner Constancy, Outer Variation: Stanley Cavell on Grammar, Criteria, and Rules [Seite 297]
4.2 - The Normativity of the Natural [Seite 317]
4.3 - Tragedy and Skepticism: On Hamlet [Seite 369]
4.4 - Cavell, Skepticism, and the Idea of Philosophical Criticism [Seite 395]
4.5 - Cavell and Other Animals [Seite 435]
5 - Contributors [Seite 457]
6 - Index of Persons [Seite 461]
7 - Contributors [Seite 457]
8 - Index of Persons [Seite 461]
