Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Stephen Hetherington -- Copyright Page / Stephen Hetherington -- Notes on Contributors / Stephen Hetherington -- Introduction: Skepticism as a Way of Thinking / Stephen Hetherington -- Chapter 1 Skepticism and Metaphysics / Barry Allen -- Chapter 2 No Moral Ground: Political Content and the Emptiness of Ethics / Anat Matar -- Chapter 3 A Material Defense of Inductive Inference / John D. Norton -- Chapter 4 The Recovery of the Human: Cavell, Skepticism, Romanticism / Nikolas Kompridis -- Chapter 5 Skepticism and Naturalism of Other Minds: Remarks on the (In)visibility of Other Minds / David Macarthur -- Chapter 6 A Defense of Transcendental Arguments / Stephen L. White -- Chapter 7 Content-Determinacy Skepticism and Phenomenal Intentionality / Terry Horgan -- Chapter 8 Skeptical Politics / Andrew Norris -- Chapter 9 Fallible Knowing, Fallible Acting / Stephen Hetherington -- Index / Stephen Hetherington.

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.

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