Scepticism, Knowledge, and Forms of Reasoning
1st Edition
Published on 5. July 2018
176 pages
978-1-5017-3173-0 (ISBN)
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"The problem of philosophical scepticism is not so much what to say about the view itself (there being a consensus that it should be rejected), but rather what to say about the arguments that purport to yield it. And since these arguments involve.
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John Koethe is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He was a Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin for Spring 2005. His many books include The Continuity of Wittgenstein's Thought, also from Cornell, Poetry at One Remove: Essays, North Point North: New and Selected Poems, Falling Water, and the forthcoming Sally's Hair.
John Koethe is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He was a Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin for Spring 2005. His many books include The Continuity of Wittgenstein's Thought, also from Cornell, Poetry at One Remove: Essays, North Point North: New and Selected Poems, Falling Water, and the forthcoming Sally's Hair.
Content
- Cover
- SCEPTICISM, KNOWLEDGE, AND FORMS OF REASONING
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- Preface
- Introduction
- CHAPTER 1. Sceptical Arguments and the Transmission Principle
- 1. Dreaming-type Arguments
- 2. Some Other Sceptical Arguments
- 3. An Alternative Reconstruction of Dreaming-type Arguments
- 4. Sceptical Arguments as Schematic
- CHAPTER 2. Knowledge and Possibility
- 1. The Evolution of Epistemic Possibility
- 2. Some Accounts of Epistemic Possibility
- 3· Knowledge
- 4· Knowledge and Possibility as Duals
- 5· Knowledge and Mental States
- 6. Social Dimensions of Knowledge
- 7· Some Vagaries of the First Person
- 8. Sceptical Arguments Revisited
- CHAPTER 3. The Status of the Sceptic's Premises
- 1. The Seductiveness of Sceptical Hypotheses
- 2. Moore's Response
- 3. A Possible Wittgensteinian Response
- 4. A Coherentist Response
- 5. The Contextualist Response
- CHAPTER 4. Epistemological Realism
- 1. Epistemological Realism and Sceptical Arguments
- 2. The Communicative Role of Epistemic Terms
- 3. A Semantics for Knowledge and Possibility
- Appendix: Realism and the Scope of Knowledge
- CHAPTER 5. The Status of the Transmission Principle
- 1. Principles and Practice
- 2. A Direct Case for the Validity of the Transmission Principle
- 3· Explaining Knowledge by Deduction
- 4· Restricting the Transmission Principle
- Appendix: Hawthorne on Knowledge and Lotteries
- CHAPTER 6. Sceptical Arguments and Forms of Reasoning
- 1. Sceptical Arguments as Anomalous
- 2. Conditions Conducive to the Anomaly
- 3· Moral Luck and Freedom
- 4· Agreement and Generality
- Index
