Skepticism, Volume 10

by Sosa, Ernest; Villanueva, Enrique

• ISBN13: 9780631222668
• ISBN10: 0631222669
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-10
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Starting with its tenth (2000) volume, Philosophical Issues will be a yearly one-volume supplement to Nous. Each year it will be devoted to invited papers and book symposia in a specific area of philosophy. The yearly has attained distinction through the uniformly high quality of its previous nine volumes and the fact that its authors include many of the most distinguished philosophers active today. The topic of Volume 10 is controversies at the interface of epistemology with philosophy of language and philosophy of mind, including discussion of the sorites paradox and linguistic contextualism on attributions of knowledge.

Author Biography

Ernest Sosa is a Professor of Philosophy at Brown University and Rutgers University. He is author of Knowledge in Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 1991) and of papers in metaphysics and epistemology.

Enrique Villanueva is a Research Fellow at the Instituto de Investigaciones Juridicas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. He is author of papers and books in philosophy of mind and history of philosophy, and editor of Philosophical Issues from 1992 to 2000.

Table of Contents

Skepticism and Contextualism

Skepticism, Tracking, and Warrant

The Contextualist Evasion of Epistemology

Sensitivity, Indiscernibility And Knowledge

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Contextualism and Externalism: Trading in One Form of Skepticism for Another

Scrutinizing a Trade

What Has Contexualism to Do with Skepticism?

What Has Contexualism and Levels of Scrutiny

Is Contextualism Stable ?

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Contextualism and Skipticism

Contextualism and the Real Nature of Academic Skipticism

Reply to Cohen

Scepticism, Contextualism and Closure

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Cogency and Question-Begging: Some Reflections on McKinsey's Paradox.and Putnam's Proof

On Wright 's Diagnosis of McKinsey's Argument

Transmission and Closure

Warrant-Transmission, Defeaters and Disquotations

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Vagueness and Partial Belief

Vagueness and Indirect Disclosure

Stephen Schiffer's Theory of Vagueness

Vagueness as a Psychological Notion

Partial Belief and Borderline Cases

Vagueness- Related Attitudes

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Scepticism and the Principle of Inferential Justification

Scepticism and Epistemic Kinds

The Principle of Inferential Justification,Scepticism and Causal Beliefs

Memory and Justification: Hookway and Fumerton on Scepticism

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