
Explanatory Solutions to Skeptical Problems
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- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Explanations and Skeptical Problems
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 Skeptical Problems
- 1.3 Explanationism
- 1.4 What's to Come
- 2 Phenomenal Explanationism Revisited Part I: Appearances as Evidence
- 2.1 An Internalist Evidentialism
- 2.2 Ultimate Evidence
- 2.2.1 Appearances Aren't Beliefs
- 2.2.2 Appearances Aren't Dispositions to Believe
- 2.2.3 Appearances Aren't Evidence Takings
- 2.2.4 Appearances Are Experiences
- 2.3 Not All Appearances Are Equal
- 3 Phenomenal Explanationism Revisited Part II: Evidential Fit and PE in Action
- 3.1 Evidential Fit
- 3.1.1 Are Inferences Required?
- 3.1.2 What's an Explanation?
- 3.1.3 What Does It Take to Be the Best?
- 3.1.4 Degrees of Justification?
- 3.2 PE in Action
- 3.2.1 Perception
- 3.2.2 Memory
- 3.2.3 Testimony
- 3.2.4 Introspection
- 3.2.5 Inference
- 3.2.6 A Priori
- 4 Pyrrhonian Problems
- 4.1 Getting Started
- 4.2 The Problem of the Criterion
- 4.2.1 Begging the Question
- 4.2.2 Getting Off the Wheel
- 4.3 Agrippa's Trilemma
- 4.3.1 Stopping the Regress
- 4.3.2 Two Challenges for Foundationalism
- 4.3.2.1 The Sellarsian Dilemma
- 4.3.2.2 The Arbitrariness Problem
- 5 The Cartesian Problem
- 5.1 Closure and Underdetermination
- 5.1.1 The Relationship Between CJ* and UP*
- 5.1.2 Second-Order Problems
- 5.2 Preliminary I: What Needs Explaining
- 5.3 Preliminary II: Explanationist Approaches
- 5.4 An Initial Advantage
- 5.5 Basic Skepticism
- 5.6 Accommodating Skepticism
- 5.7 Mimicking Skepticism
- 5.8 Comparing Explanations
- 6 Memory Problems
- 6.1 Two Threats to Memory
- 6.2 Skepticism About the Past
- 6.3 Skepticism About Memory
- 6.3.1 A Skeptical Argument
- 6.3.2 An Unimportant Limitation
- 6.3.3 An Important Limitation
- 6.3.4 PE's Response to M
- 6.3.5 A Circularity Problem?
- 6.4 Episodic Memory Skepticism
- 7 Humean Problems
- 7.1 Skeptical Threats: Foreign and Domestic
- 7.2 Humean Inductive Skepticism
- 7.3 The Explanatory Response
- 7.4 Does the Problem Return?
- 7.5 Overcoming Voltaire's Objection
- 7.5.1 Isn't This Circular?
- 7.5.2 Why Not Rule-Circularity from the Start?
- 7.5.3 Isn't This Too Easy?
- 7.6 Further Challenges to Explanatory Reasoning
- 7.6.1 Bad Lots
- 7.6.2 Unconceived Alternatives
- 7.6.3 Conflict with Bayesianism?
- 7.7 Explanatory Solutions
- References
- Index
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