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Skepticism: A Contemporary Reader
Edited by Keith DeRose and Ted A. Warfield
Oxford University Press, 1999
A collection of the best and most important recent philosophical essays on the topic of skepticism.
Contributors:
- Anthony Brueckner
- Keith DeRose
- Fred Dretske
- Graeme Forbes
- Christopher Hill
- David Lewis
- Thomas Nagel
- Robert Nozick
- Hilary Putnam
- Ernest Sosa
- Gail Stine
- Barry Stroud
- Peter Unger
- Ted A. Warfield
Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction: Responding to Skepticism
Keith DeRose
1. The Argument by Skeptical Hypothesis
2. “Aw, Come On!”
3. Moore’s Response
4. The Response from Semantic Externalism
5. Responses from Epistemic Externalism
6. Relevant Alternatives and Denying Closure
7. Contextualist Responses
8. Concessive Responses
PART ONE
The Response from Semantic Externalism
Chapter 2 Brains in a Vat
Hilary Putnam
Chapter 3 Semantic Answers to Skepticism
Anthony Brueckner
Chapter 4 Realism and Skepticism: Brains in a Vat Revisited
Graeme Forbes
Chapter 5 A Priori Knowledge of the World:
Knowing the World by Knowing Our Minds
Ted A Warfield
PART TWO
Responses from Epistemic Externalism
Chapter 6 Philosophical Scepticism and Epistemic Circularity
Ernest Sosa
Chapter 7 Process Reliabilism and Cartesian Scepticism
Christopher S. Hill
PART THREE
Relevant Alternatives and Denying Closure
Chapter 8 Epistemic Operators
Fred Dretske
Chapter 9 Skepticism, Relevant Alternatives, and Deductive Closure
Gail Stine
Chapter 10 Philosphical Explanations (Selections)
Robert Nozick
PART FOUR
Contextualist Responses
Chapter 11 Solving the Skeptical Problem
Keith DeRose
Chapter 12 Elusive Knowledge
David Lewis
PART FIVE
Concessive Responses
Chapter 13 Philosophical Relativity (Selections)
Peter Unger
Chapter 14 The View from Nowhere (Selections)
Thomas Nagel
Chapter 15 Scepticism, ‘Externalism’, and the Goal of Epistemology
Barry Stroud
Bibliography
Index
Editor’s Introduction: “Responding to Skepticism”
Note: This is from the disk I (KDR) sent to Oxford UP. Since the document on the disk was edited a bit, what appears here is not exactly as the essay appears in Skepticism. It’s pretty close, though. In the version that appears in the book, page references to other essays in Skepticism refer to page numbers in the book, while here page references are, for the most part, to the original place of publication of the essays referred to.
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