TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hetherington,Stephen
AU  - Macarthur,David
TI  - Living Skepticism. Essays in Epistemology and Beyond
T2  - Brill Studies in Skepticism
SN  - 9789004525405
AV  - B837 
U1  - 149/.73 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Knowledge, Theory of
KW  - Skepticism
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004525474
ER  -