Living Skepticism. Essays in Epistemology and Beyond.

• Superior document: Brill Studies in Skepticism
• Author: Hetherington, Stephen.
• TeilnehmendeR: Macarthur, David.
• Place / Publishing House: New York : : BRILL,, 2022.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill Studies in Skepticism
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (213 pages)

"Skepticism has always been a fundamental way of thinking philosophically, since its crucial role in helping to create the conditions for philosophy in ancient Greece. But the contemporary philosophical reception of skepticism, whether ancient or modern, seems to have largely forgotten, and left underexplored, its preeminent place in the history of philosophy. This is no doubt partly due to our living in an age of science, for the typical scientific attitude to skepticism is that it is an "overreaction" (Quine 1981: 473-475, 475), as if it could be relatively easily tamed by a due respect for the sober discoveries and technological advances of the sciences; particularly the natural sciences"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Skepticism as a Way of Thinking -- References -- Chapter 1 Skepticism and Metaphysics -- References -- Chapter 2 No Moral Ground: Political Content and the Emptiness of Ethics -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Judgmental Morality: God's Inescapable Presence -- 3 Aesthetic Ethics -- 4 Meta-Political Ethics -- 5 Only Harmful without It -- References -- Chapter 3 A Material Defense of Inductive Inference -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Skepticism about Universal Logics of Inductive Inference -- 2.1 Inductive Generalization -- 2.2 Hypothetical Induction -- 2.3 Probabilistic Induction -- 3 Material Theory of Induction -- 4 A General Argument for the Material Theory of Induction -- 5 Illustration: Galileo's Law of Fall -- 6 The Superfluity of Formal Theory -- 7 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4 The Recovery of the Human: Cavell, Skepticism, Romanticism -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- References -- Chapter 5 Skepticism and Naturalism of Other Minds: Remarks on the (In)visibility of Other Minds -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Naturalism and the Mind -- 3 Are Other Minds (In)visible? -- 4 Reading Others -- References -- Chapter 6 A Defense of Transcendental Arguments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Transcendental Argument and the Refutation of Humean Skepticism -- 3 Philosophical vs Real Skepticism -- 4 Skepticism as Underdetermination -- 5 Skepticism as Underdetermination and A Posteriori Inferences -- 6 Transcendental Arguments and Objectivity -- 7 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7 Content-Determinacy Skepticism and Phenomenal Intentionality -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Searle on Quine and Davidson -- 3 Updated Worries about Content-Determinacy -- 4 Searle on the Sources of Content-Determinacy -- 5 Phenomenal Intentionality and Externalistic Intentionality.

6 Phenomenal Intentionality as the Ground of Content-Determinacy -- 7 Determinate Phenomenal Intentionality and the Whole Hard Problem -- Appendix -- References -- Chapter 8 Skeptical Politics -- References -- Chapter 9 Fallible Knowing, Fallible Acting -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Infallibilism? Fallibilism? -- 3 McDowell's Categorial Strategy -- 4 A Fuller Fallibilism? -- 5 Knowledge as Capacity: The Basic Idea -- 6 Knowledge as Capacity: An Example -- 7 Belief -- 8 Explaining Some Current Epistemological Ideas -- 9 Knowledge as Gradable -- 10 Knowledge as Both Factive and Fallible -- 11 Some Skeptical Reasoning -- 12 Picturing Ourselves as Knowers -- References -- Index.