Scepticism and Perceptual Justification
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 1 May 2014
- ISBN 9780199658343
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages372 pages
- Size 241x162x28 mm
- Weight 718 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
How can experience provide knowledge, or even justified belief, about the objective world outside our minds? This volume presents original essays by prominent contemporary epistemologists, who show how philosophical progress on foundational issues can improve our understanding of, and suggest a solution to, this famous sceptical question.
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One of the hardest problems in the history of Western philosophy has been to explain whether and how experience can provide knowledge (or even justification for belief) about the objective world outside the experiencer's mind. A prominent brand of scepticism has precisely denied that experience can provide such knowledge. How, for instance (these sceptics ask) can I know that my experiences are not produced in me by a powerful demon (or, in a modern twist on that traditional Cartesian scenario, by a supercomputer)? This volume, originating from the research project on Basic Knowledge recently concluded at the Northern Institute of Philosophy, presents new essays on scepticism about the senses written by some of the most prominent contemporary epistemologists. They approach the sceptical challenge by discussing such topics as the conditions for perceptual justification, the existence of a non-evidential kind of warrant and the extent of one's evidence, the epistemology of inference, the relations between justification, probability and certainty, the relevance of subjective appearances to the epistemology of perception, the role that broadly pragmatic considerations play in epistemic justification, the contents of perception, and the function of attention. In all these cases, the papers show how philosophical progress on foundational issues can improve our understanding of and possibly afford a solution to a historically prominent problem like scepticism.
Dodd and Zardini have brought together a fine collection of essays, each of which reward careful study.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Scepticism and Perceptual Justification: Introduction
Prelude: Past Scepticism in the Light of Present Epistemology
Descartes's Epistemology
I. The Immediacy of the Senses
Confirming the Less Likely, Discovering the Unknown
Probability and Scepticism
E & ¬H
Inference and Scepticism
Perceptual Knowledge and Background Beliefs
Consciousness, Attention, and Justification
II. The Dependency of the Senses
On Epistemic Alchemy
Entitlement and the Groundlessness of Our Believing
On Epistemic Entitlement (II): Welfare State Epistemology
Moderatism, Transmission Failures, Closure and Humean Skepticism
III. The Evidence of the Senses
McDowell and Wright on Anti-Scepticism etc.
What Is My Evidence that Here Is a Hand?
The Arbitrariness of Belief
How to Motivate Scepticism
Index
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