The appearance of ignorance / Keith Derose.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

DeRose, Keith, 1962- author.

Series:

DeRose, Keith, 1962- Knowledge, skepticism, and context ; volume 2.

Knowledge, Skepticism, and Context ; volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Contextualism (Philosophy).

Ignorance (Theory of knowledge).

Skepticism.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

xv, 303 pages : illustration ; 25 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Keith DeRose presents, develops, and defends original solutions to two of the stickiest problems in epistemology: skeptical hypotheses and the lottery problem. He deploys a powerful version of contextualism, the view that the epistemic standards for the attribution of knowledge vary with context.

Contents:

1 Solving the Skeptical Problem 1

2 Moorean Methodology: Was the Skeptic Doomed to Inevitable Defeat? 39

3 Two Substantively Moorean Responses and the Project of Refuting Skepticism 64

4 Contextualism and Skepticism: The Defeat of the Bold Skeptic 87

5 Lotteries, Insensitivity, and Closure 132

6 Insensitivity 175

7 How Do We Know that We're Not Brains in Vats? Toward a Picture of Knowledge 202.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-299) and index.

ISBN:

9780199564477

0199564477

OCLC:

994239796