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This book of original papers offers fresh approaches to skepticism–a topic in philosophy with a noble two-millennia history; and one that even inaugurated modern philosophy in Descartes’s Meditations. Particularly with the rise of scientific forms or models of philosophy, skepticism today is often treated as a dead-end not worthy of serious reflection. In contrast to this prevailing attitude, the skepticisms discussed in these pages are alive. Here are assembled leading thinkers who claim at least some forms of skepticism to be true (e.g. skepticism about ethics or metaphysics) or insightful enough to be a lasting source of philosophical enlightenment and inspiration.

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Author:   Stephen Hetherington ,  David Macarthur
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   5
Weight:   0.485kg
ISBN:  

9789004525405

ISBN 10:   9004525408
Pages:   206
Publication Date:   22 September 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors Introduction: Skepticism as a Way of Thinking   Stephen Hetherington and David Macarthur 1 Skepticism and Metaphysics   Barry Allen 2 No Moral Ground: Political Content and the Emptiness of Ethics   Anat Matar 3 A Material Defense of Inductive Inference   John D. Norton 4 The Recovery of the Human: Cavell, Skepticism, Romanticism   Nikolas Kompridis 5 Skepticism & Naturalism of Other Minds: Remarks on the (In)visibility of Other Minds   David Macarthur 6 A Defense of Transcendental Arguments   Stephen L. White 7 Content-Determinacy Skepticism and Phenomenal Intentionality   Terry Horgan and George Graham 8 Skeptical Politics   Andrew Norris 9 Fallible Knowing, Fallible Acting   Stephen Hetherington Index

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Stephen Hetherington (Ph.D., Pittsburgh) is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, UNSW, Sydney. His books include Good Knowledge, Bad Knowledge (OUP, 2001), How to Know (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), and Knowledge and the Gettier Problem (CUP, 2016). He also served as Editor-in-Chief for the Australasian Journal of Philosophy 2013–22. David Macarthur (Ph.D., Harvard) is Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Sydney. He edited the volume Hilary & Ruth-Anna Putnam’s Pragmatism as a Way of Life (Harvard, 2017) and co-edited, with Mario De Caro, Naturalism in Question (Harvard, 2004), Naturalism and Normativity (Columbia, 2010), Hilary Putnam: Philosophy in an Age of Science (Harvard, 2012), and Hilary Putnam: Philosophy as Dialogue (Harvard, 2022).

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