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2022, Skepticism (New Problems of Philosophy)
A study of skepticism
2008 •
Introduction - John Greco Part One. Varieties of Skepticism and Skeptical Arguments 1. The Pyrrhonian Problematic- Markus Lammenranta 2. The Problem of the Criterion- Richard Fumerton 3. Cartesian Skepticism: Arguments and Antecedents- Jose Luis Bermudez 4. Hume's Skepticism- Michael Williams 5. Skepticism about the External World- John Greco 6. Skepticism about Induction- Weintraub 7. Skepticism about A Priori Justification: Self-evidence, Defeasibility, and Cogito Propositions- Robert Audi 8. Moral Realism, Quasi-Realism and Skepticism- Terence Cuneo 9. Religious Skepticism - Paul K. Moser 10. Live Skeptical Hypotheses - Bryan Frances Part Two. Responses to Skepticism 11. Berkeley's Treatment of Skepticism - George Pappas 12. Kant's Response to Skepticism- Robert Stern 13. Reid's Response to Skepticism- James Van Cleve 14. Peirce and Skepticism - Christopher Hookway 15. Moore's Common Sense Response- Noah Lemos 16. Austin's Way with Skepticism - Mark Kaplan...
2015 •
ABSTRACT Nowadays, when one doubts or questions extraordinarily, he is branded a skeptic and consequently resisted. The reason for this anachronistic approach towards the skeptic as an individual, and skepticism as a method or an attitude is not far-fetched. For example, people usually think that skeptics are men whose basic mood is that of doubt. Also they argue that skeptics are those who deny absolutely that true knowledge is possible. In this work, our attempt generally is to show how wrong this position is, and specifically, it is to restate that rather than denying the possibility of certain knowledge, skepticism is a philosophical method of inquiry or epistemological attitude towards knowledge whose goal is indeed certainty, but which selects a serious universal doubt concerning all knowledge as the starting point of a theory of knowledge. In this context therefore, the paradox of skepticism in epistemological enterprise would demand that whoever wants certain knowledge should proceed through doubt. Ordinarily, one would have thought that the best way to certainty is by accepting entirely all that one is told especially when it comes from a sage, or a tradition. Unfortunately, the position of this paper suggests otherwise.
Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Perception
Skepticism and Perception2015 •
A variety of arguments for and against skepticism with respect to perception are presented and evaluated. The skeptical arguments are drawn from the Academics, the Pyrrhonists, and Descartes. Anti-skeptical responses considered include Moorean common sense, dogmatism, and externalism.
Journal of Philosophy
The Long Road to Skepticism2007 •
Virtually every epistemological theory that is currently a live option is committed to two theses: fallibilism and attributabilism. A new argument for skepticism is advanced, which is grounded in the incompatibility of these two theses. It is then argued that the main responses to traditional skepticism—epistemic externalism, contextualism, and Moorean common sense—are ineffective with respect to this new type of skepticism.
Skepticism: From Antiquity to the Present
Introduction: Contemporary Skepticism2018 •
Overview of skepticism in contemporary epistemology, with attention given to how it intersects with internalism and externalism, fallibilism, contextualism, disjunctivism, disagreement with others, morality, and religion. Consideration of skeptical arguments about the structure of justification, the external world, induction, the a priori, and other minds.
1992 •
An important source of doubt about our knowledge of the "external world" is the thought that all of our sensory experience could be delusive without our realizing it. Such wholesale questioning of the deliverances of all forms of perception seems to leave no resources for successfully justifying our belief in the existence of an objective world beyond our subjective experiences. I argue that there is there is a fatal flaw in the very expression of philosophical doubt about the "external world." Therefore, no such justification is necessary. The feature of skepticism which I believe renders it vulnerable is the assumption that each of us has a right to be certain of his own existence as a subject of conscious experience even in the face of comprehensive doubt about our empirical beliefs.
Philosophical Studies
A New Argument for Skepticism2009 •
The traditional argument for skepticism relies on a comparison between a normal subject and a subject in a skeptical scenario: because there is no relevant difference between them, neither has knowledge. Externalists respond by arguing that there is in fact a relevant difference—the normal subject is properly situated in her environment. I argue, however, that there is another sort of comparison available—one between a normal subject and a subject with a belief that is accidentally true—that makes possible a new argument for skepticism. Unlike the traditional form of skeptical argument, this new argument applies equally well to both internalist and externalist theories of knowledge.
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