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English
Routledge
24 March 2021
Skepticism is one of the perennial problems of philosophy: from antiquity, to the early modern period of Descartes and Hume, and right through to the present day. It remains a fundamental and widely studied topic and, as Annalisa Coliva and Duncan Pritchard show in Skepticism, it presents us with a paradox with important ramifications not only for epistemology but also for many other core areas of philosophy.

This book provides a thorough grounding in contemporary debates about skepticism, exploring the following key topics:

the core skeptical arguments, with a particular focus on Cartesian and Humean radical skepticism

the epistemic principles that are held to underlie skeptical arguments, such as the Closure and Underdetermination principles the content externalism of Putnam, Davidson, and Chalmers, and how it might help us respond to radical skepticism

the epistemic externalism/internalism distinction and how it relates to the skeptical problematic

contextualism in epistemology and its anti-skeptical import

the various interpretations of a Wittgensteinian hinge epistemology

the viability of epistemological disjunctivism, including whether it can be combined with hinge epistemology as part of a dual response to radical skepticism

liberal and conservative responses to the Humean skeptical paradox.

Both authors are prominent figures who work on skepticism, and so one novelty of the book is that it provides an insight into their own contrasting responses to this philosophical difficulty. With the addition of annotated further reading and a glossary, this is an ideal starting point for anyone studying the philosophy of skepticism, along with students of epistemology, metaphysics, and contemporary analytic philosophy.

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Imprint:   Routledge
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm, 
Weight:   360g
ISBN:   9780367178352
ISBN 10:   0367178354
Series:   New Problems of Philosophy
Pages:   202
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Primary ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Introduction 1. The Skeptical Paradox 2. Content and Epistemic Externalism 3. The Denial of the Closure Principle and Contextualism 4. Hinge Epistemology and Closure-Based Cartesian Skepticism 5. Epistemological Disjunctivism 6. Moore, Liberals, and Conservatives 7. Varieties of Hinge Epistemology: Naturalism, Contextualism, and Constitutivism. Glossary Bibliography Index

Annalisa Coliva is Full Professor, Chancellor Fellow, and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine, USA. Her books include Moore and Wittgenstein: Scepticism, Certainty and Common Sense (2010), Extended Rationality: A Hinge Epistemology (2015), and The Varieties of Self-Knowledge (2016). With Maria Baghramian she is author of Relativism (Routledge, 2019). Duncan Pritchard is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Knowledge, Technology & Society at the University of California, Irvine, USA. His books include Epistemic Luck (2005), The Nature and Value of Knowledge (with Millar and Haddock, 2010), Epistemological Disjunctivism (2012), Epistemic Angst (2015), Scepticism: A Very Short Introduction (2019), and What Is This Thing Called Knowledge? (4th edn, Routledge, 2018).

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