Scepticism and Perceptual Justification

by Dodd, Dylan; Zardini, Elia

• ISBN13: 9780199658343
• ISBN10: 019965834X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-06-10
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Dylan Dodd has held postdoctoral fellowships at Syracuse University and the Universities of St Andrews and Aberdeen. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Alaska Anchorage.

Elia Zardini has held postdoctoral fellowships at the Universities of St Andrews, Aberdeen and at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He is currently a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow at the University of Barcelona and an Associate Fellow at the University of Aberdeen.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Scepticism and Perceptual Justification: Introduction, Dylan Dodd and Elia Zardini
Prelude: Past Scepticism in the Light of Present Epistemology
2. Descartes's Epistemology, Ernest Sosa
I. The Immediacy of the Senses
3. Confirming the Less Likely, Discovering the Unknown, Elia Zardini
4. Probability and Scepticism, Brian Weatherson
5. E & nH, Jonathan Vogel
6. Inference and Scepticism, Jose L. Zalabardo
7. Perceptual Knowledge and Background Beliefs, Alan Millar
8. Consciousness, Attention, and Justification, Susanna Siegel and Nico Silins
II. The Dependency of the Senses
9. On Epistemic Alchemy, Aidan McGlynn
10. Entitlement and the Groundlessness of Our Believing, Duncan Pritchard
11. On Epistemic Entitlement (II): Welfare State Epistemology, Crispin Wright
12. Moderatism, Transmission Failures, Closure and Humean Skepticism, Annalisa Coliva
III. The Evidence of the Senses
13. McDowell and Wright on Anti-Scepticism etc., Alex Byrne
14. What Is My Evidence that Here Is a Hand?, Roger White
15. The Arbitrariness of Belief, Martin Smith
16. How to Motivate Scepticism, Dylan Dodd
Index