The illusion of doubt /
The Illusion of Doubt' shows that radical scepticism is an illusion generated by a Cartesian picture of our evidential situation - the view that my epistemic grounds in both the 'good' and the 'bad' cases must be the same, and consists in information about an inner mental re...
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Oxford University Press (GBP),
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Table of Contents:
- Cover ; The Illusion of Doubt; Copyright ; Dedication ; Contents; Acknowledgements; Epigraph ; Introduction: Dissolution, not Refutation; 1: The 'Default View' of Perceptual Reasons and 'Closure-Based' Sceptical Arguments; I Introduction; II Dretske's Case against Closure; III The Case Against Dretske; IV Scepticism and the 'Default View'; V Some Objections; VI Conclusion; 2: Forms of 'Envatment': 'Local' and 'Global'; I Introduction; II 'Local' Sceptical Scenarios and Arguments from (Perceptual) Illusion; III 'Global' Sceptical Scenarios and the 'Veil of Appearances' Sceptical Argument
- IV 'Disjunctivist Neo-Mooreanism'V Closure Again; VI Conclusion; 3: Radical Scepticism and 'Private' Language; I Introduction; II The Private Inner Object Picture; III Private Ostensive Definition and Rule-Following; IV 'Memory Sceptical' Readings of PI 258; V The Myth of the Given; VI Implications for Radical Scepticism; VII Some Objections; VIII Conclusion; 4: The Incoherence of Global Validation; I Introduction; II 'Hinge Propositions' and the 'Logical' Exclusion of Doubt; III 'Logical Pragmatism'; IV Transmission and Closure Revisited; V Conclusion; 5: Realism without Empiricism
- I IntroductionII No 'Hyper-Realism'; III Alternative Epistemic Systems and the Strange 'Wood-Sellers'; IV 'Absolute' Epistemic Facts and Epistemic Relativism; V Conclusion; Conclusion: The End of a Scandal; References; Index