ISBN:
9780199658343
Language:
English
Pages:
vii, 363 pages
,
24 cm
Edition:
First edition
Year of publication:
2014
Parallel Title:
Online-Ausg. Scepticism and perceptual justification
DDC:
149.73
Keywords:
Skepticism
;
Perception
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Skeptizismus
Abstract:
Introduction : scepticism and perceptual justification / Dylan Dodd and Elia Zardini -- Prelude : past scepticism in the light of present epistemology. Descartes's epistemology / Ernest Sosa -- The immediacy of the senses. Confirming the less likely, discovering the unknown : dogmatisms -- surd and doubly surd, natural, flat and doubly flat / Elia Zardini ; Probability and scepticism / Brian Weatherson ; E & H / Jonathan Vogel ; Inference and scepticism / José L. Zalabardo ; Perceptual knowledge and background beliefs / Alan Millar ; Consciousness, attention, and justification / Susanna Siegel and Nicholas Silins -- The dependency of the senses. On epistemic alchemy / Aidan McGlynn ; Entitlement and the groundlessness of our believing / Duncan Pritchard ; On epistemic entitlement (II) : welfare state epistemology / Crispin Wright ; Moderatiosm, transmission failures, closure, and Humean scepticism / Annalisa Coliva -- The evidence of the senses. McDowell and Wright on anti-scepticism, etc. / Alex Byrne ; What is my evidence that here is a hand? / Roger White ; The arbitrariness of belief / Martin Smith ; How to motivate scepticism / Dylan Dodd.
Abstract:
New essays on scepticism about the senses explore the problem of whether and how experience can provide knowledge or justification for belief about the objective world outside the experiencer's mind
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
