Living Skepticism. Essays in Epistemology and Beyond

Stephen Hetherington, David Macarthur (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

206 Seiten

2022
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-52540-5 (ISBN)

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Living Skepticism challenges the philosophical orthodoxy that dismisses skepticism as an intellectual embarrassment or overreaction. In this original collection of adventurous and engaging papers, skepticism is demonstrated to be true or insightful enough to form the core of an enlightened philosophy.

This book of original papers offers fresh approaches to skepticism–a topic in philosophy with a noble two-millennia history; and one that even inaugurated modern philosophy in Descartes’s Meditations. Particularly with the rise of scientific forms or models of philosophy, skepticism today is often treated as a dead-end not worthy of serious reflection. In contrast to this prevailing attitude, the skepticisms discussed in these pages are alive. Here are assembled leading thinkers who claim at least some forms of skepticism to be true (e.g. skepticism about ethics or metaphysics) or insightful enough to be a lasting source of philosophical enlightenment and inspiration.

Stephen Hetherington (Ph.D., Pittsburgh) is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, UNSW, Sydney. His books include Good Knowledge, Bad Knowledge (OUP, 2001), How to Know (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), and Knowledge and the Gettier Problem (CUP, 2016). He also served as Editor-in-Chief for the Australasian Journal of Philosophy 2013–22. David Macarthur (Ph.D., Harvard) is Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Sydney. He edited the volume Hilary & Ruth-Anna Putnam’s Pragmatism as a Way of Life (Harvard, 2017) and co-edited, with Mario De Caro, Naturalism in Question (Harvard, 2004), Naturalism and Normativity (Columbia, 2010), Hilary Putnam: Philosophy in an Age of Science (Harvard, 2012), and Hilary Putnam: Philosophy as Dialogue (Harvard, 2022).

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Skepticism as a Way of Thinking

Stephen Hetherington and David Macarthur

1 Skepticism and Metaphysics

Barry Allen

2 No Moral Ground: Political Content and the Emptiness of Ethics

Anat Matar

3 A Material Defense of Inductive Inference

John D. Norton

4 The Recovery of the Human: Cavell, Skepticism, Romanticism

Nikolas Kompridis

5 Skepticism & Naturalism of Other Minds: Remarks on the (In)visibility of Other Minds

David Macarthur

6 A Defense of Transcendental Arguments

Stephen L. White

7 Content-Determinacy Skepticism and Phenomenal Intentionality

Terry Horgan and George Graham

8 Skeptical Politics

Andrew Norris

9 Fallible Knowing, Fallible Acting

Stephen Hetherington

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Erscheinungsdatum	16.09.2022
Reihe/Serie	Brill Studies in Skepticism ; 5
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	485 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	90-04-52540-8 / 9004525408
ISBN-13	978-90-04-52540-5 / 9789004525405
Zustand	Neuware