Varieties of skepticism : essays after Kant, Wittgenstein, and Cavell / edited by James Conant and Andrea Kern ; contributors Steven Affeldt [and fifteen others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Conant, James, editor.

Kern, Andrea, editor.

Affeldt, Steven, contributor.

Series:

Berlin studies in knowledge research ; Volume 5.

Berlin Studies in Knowledge Research ; Volume 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig.

Cavell, Stanley, 1926-.

Cavell, Stanley.

Skepticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (464 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany : De Gruyter, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume brings out the varieties of forms of philosophical skepticism that have continued to preoccupy philosophers for the past of couple of centuries, as well as the specific varieties of philosophical response that these have engendered - above all, in the work of those who have sought to take their cue from Kant, Wittgenstein, or Cavell - and to illuminate how these philosophical approaches are related to and bear upon one another. The philosophers brought together in this volume are united by the thought that a proper appreciation of the depth of the skeptical challenge must reveal it to be deeply disquieting, in the sense that skepticism threatens not just some set of theoretical commitments, but also-and fundamentally-our very sense of self, world, and other. Second, that skepticism is the proper starting point for any serious attempt to make sense of what philosophy is, and to gauge the prospects of philosophical progress.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Introduction: From Kant to Cavell / Conant, James / Kern, Andrea

Part I: After Kant+

Skepticism after Kant / Franks, Paul

Knowledge, Reasons, and Causes: Sellars and Skepticism / Williams, Michael

Why Do Our Reasons Come to an End? / Kern, Andrea

Skepticism, Stroud, and the Contextuality of Knowledge / Putnam, Hilary

Finite Knowledge / Rödl, Sebastian

Part II: After Wittgenstein

The Hardness of the Soft: Wittgenstein's Early Thought About Skepticism / Diamond, Cora

Skepticism in Interpretation / Wellmer, Albrecht

Interpretation: Everyday and Philosophical / Stone, Martin

Rule-Following Skepticism, Properly So Called / Bridges, Jason

Part III: After Cavell

Inner Constancy, Outer Variation: Stanley Cavell on Grammar, Criteria, and Rules / Mulhall, Stephen

The Normativity of the Natural / Affeldt, Steven G.

Tragedy and Skepticism: On Hamlet / Menke, Christoph

Cavell, Skepticism, and the Idea of Philosophical Criticism / Hamawaki, Arata

Cavell and Other Animals / Glendinning, Simon

Contributors

Index of Persons

Notes:

Includes index.

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ISBN:

3-11-048179-0

3-11-033679-0

OCLC:

875818926