The Skeptics : Contemporary Essays (Hardcover)

Contents: Preface; Introduction; Skepticism and foundations, Gilbert Harman; What are we to say to the Carthesian Skeptic?, Michael Ayers; Skepticism and justification, A.C. Grayling; Is knowledge easy ” or impossible? Externalism as the only alternative to Skepticism, James Van Cleve; Three attempts to refute Skepticism and why they fail, Richard Foley; How a Pyrrhonian Skeptic might respond to academic Skepticism, Peter Klein; Skepticism, fallibility and circularity, Keith Lehrer; Skepticism: what perception teaches, Fred Dretske; Elusive knowledge, David Lewis; Two diagnoses of Skepticism, Robert Fogelin; Responding to the Skeptic: therapeutic versus theoretical diagnosis, Marie McGinn; Neither Contextualism nor Skepticism, Ernest Sosa; Indiscernability Skepticism, Steven Luper; Brains in a vat, Hilary Putnam; Trees, computer program features, and skeptical hypotheses, Anthony Brueckner; Meta-skepticism: meditations in ethno-epistemology, Shaun Nichols, Stephen Stich and Jonathan M. Weinberg; Scepticism and the social construction of science and technology: the case of the boundary layer, David Bloor; Bibliography; Index.