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Introduction: Philosophical Skepticism and Pyrrhonism | p. 3 |
Gettier and the Problem of Knowledge | |
Gettier Problems | p. 15 |
Gettier's Formulation | p. 15 |
Gettier's Reasons for Accepting His First Point | p. 16 |
Gettier's Understanding of Justification | p. 17 |
A Second Interpretation of Justification | p. 18 |
The Gettier Problems and Nonmonotonicity | p. 21 |
Variations on the Gettier Problems | p. 23 |
Epistemic Responsibility | p. 26 |
Conclusion | p. 28 |
Fourth-Clause Theories | p. 31 |
Analyses of Knowledge | p. 31 |
Indefeasibility Theories | p. 33 |
Externalism | p. 41 |
The Attraction of Externalism | p. 42 |
BonJour against the Reliabilists | p. 43 |
Externalist Grounds | p. 46 |
Goldman and Causal Theories of Knowing | p. 49 |
The Move to the Subjunctive | p. 54 |
Subjunctivism and Subjunctivitis | p. 61 |
Conclusive Reasons | p. 61 |
Subjunctivism | p. 66 |
Subjunctivitis | p. 70 |
Subjunctive Conditionals and Possible Worlds | p. 72 |
Nozick against the "Skeptics," | p. 75 |
The Failure of Epistemic Closure | p. 79 |
Nozick against the Skeptics | p. 81 |
Dretske against Epistemic Closure | p. 82 |
Epistemic Grace | p. 88 |
Justificatory Procedures | p. 89 |
Doubts | p. 90 |
Levels of Scrutiny | p. 93 |
Is There a Fact of the Matter in Knowing? | p. 95 |
It's Hard to Say | p. 98 |
Summary of Part I | p. 99 |
The Lottery Paradox and the Preface Paradox | p. 102 |
The Lottery Paradox | p. 102 |
The Preface Paradox | p. 105 |
The Conjunction Principle for Knowledge | p. 108 |
Agrippa and the Problem of Justification | |
Agrippa and the Problem of Epistemic Justification | p. 113 |
The Problem | p. 114 |
Success Conditions on Theories of Justification | p. 117 |
Theories of Epistemic Justification | p. 119 |
Foundationalism | p. 123 |
Forms of Foundationalism | p. 123 |
Chisholm's Version of Foundationalism | p. 124 |
Levels of Justification | p. 125 |
Certainty and the Self-Presenting | p. 129 |
Presumptions | p. 132 |
The Transfer of Justification | p. 134 |
Material Epistemic Principles | p. 135 |
Summary and Evaluation | p. 138 |
Internal Coherentism | p. 146 |
BonJour's Version of Coherentism | p. 147 |
Standards of Coherence | p. 148 |
Immediate Problems | p. 149 |
The Doxastic Presumption | p. 152 |
Standard Objections to Coherentism | p. 154 |
Coherence and Observation | p. 155 |
The Multiple-Choice Problem | p. 158 |
Justification and Truth | p. 159 |
An Assessment | p. 162 |
Lehrer and the Isolation Objection | p. 162 |
External Coherentism | p. 170 |
Davidson's Version of Coherentism | p. 171 |
The Nature of Coherence | p. 172 |
Truth | p. 173 |
The Skeptical Challenge | p. 174 |
Sensation and Belief | p. 175 |
Meaning and Justification | p. 176 |
The Fundamental Argument | p. 176 |
The Golden Triangle | p. 182 |
Davidson's Externalist Semantics | p. 183 |
The Problem of Error | p. 184 |
The Cartesian Skeptic's Reply | p. 186 |
The Pyrrhonian Skeptic's Reply | p. 188 |
Pyrrhonism | p. 192 |
Neo-Pyrrhonism | p. 192 |
Again, Is There a Fact of the Matter in Knowing? | p. 193 |
The Pyrrhonist's Use of Epistemic Terms | p. 195 |
Is Skepticism Statable? | p. 196 |
A Temporary Stopping Point | p. 202 |
Two Wittgensteins | p. 205 |
Turning Things Around | p. 206 |
Holism | p. 208 |
Publicity | p. 211 |
Action | p. 215 |
References | p. 223 |
Index | p. 231 |
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