Scepticism, knowledge, and forms of reasoning /
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| Author / Creator: | Koethe, John, 1945- |
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| Imprint: | Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2005. |
| Description: | ix, 161 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5850330 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Sceptical Arguments and the Transmission Principle
- 1. Dreaming-type Arguments
- 2. Some Other Sceptical Arguments
- 3. An Alternative Reconstruction of Dreaming-type Arguments
- 4. Sceptical Arguments as Schematic
- Chapter 2. Knowledge and Possibility
- 1. The Evolution of Epistemic Possibility
- 2. Some Accounts of Epistemic Possibility
- 3. Knowledge
- 4. Knowledge and Possibility as Duals
- 5. Knowledge and Mental States
- 6. Social Dimensions of Knowledge
- 7. Some Vagaries of the First Person
- 8. Sceptical Arguments Revisited
- Chapter 3. The Status of the Sceptic's Premises
- 1. The Seductiveness of Sceptical Hypotheses
- 2. Moore's Response
- 3. A Possible Wittgensteinian Response
- 4. A Coherentist Response
- 5. The Contextualist Response
- Chapter 4. Epistemological Realism
- 1. Epistemological Realism and Sceptical Arguments
- 2. The Communicative Role of Epistemic Terms
- 3. A Semantics for Knowledge and Possibility
- Appendix. Realism and the Scope of Knowledge
- Chapter 5. The Status of the Transmission Principle
- 1. Principles and Practice
- 2. A Direct Case for the Validity of the Transmission Principle
- 3. Explaining Knowledge by Deduction
- 4. Restricting the Transmission Principle
- Appendix. Hawthorne on Knowledge and Lotteries
- Chapter 6. Sceptical Arguments and Forms of Reasoning
- 1. Sceptical Arguments as Anomalous
- 2. Conditions Conducive to the Anomaly
- 3. Moral Luck and Freedom
- 4. Agreement and Generality
- Index
