Scepticism and perceptual justification / edited by Dylan Dodd and Elia Zardini.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dodd, Dylan, editor.

Zardini, Elia, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Skepticism.

Perception.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 363 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. This volume presents new essays on scepticism about the senses written by some of the most prominent contemporary epistemologists.

Contents:

Introduction : scepticism and perceptual justification / Dylan Dodd and Elia Zardini

Prelude : past scepticism in the light of present epistemology. Descartes's epistemology / Ernest Sosa

The immediacy of the senses. Confirming the less likely, discovering the unknown : dogmatisms

surd and doubly surd, natural, flat and doubly flat / Elia Zardini ; Probability and scepticism / Brian Weatherson ; E & H / Jonathan Vogel ; Inference and scepticism / José L. Zalabardo ; Perceptual knowledge and background beliefs / Alan Millar ; Consciousness, attention, and justification / Susanna Siegel and Nicholas Silins

The dependency of the senses. On epistemic alchemy / Aidan McGlynn ; Entitlement and the groundlessness of our believing / Duncan Pritchard ; On epistemic entitlement (II) : welfare state epistemology / Crispin Wright ; Moderatiosm, transmission failures, closure, and Humean scepticism / Annalisa Coliva

The evidence of the senses. McDowell and Wright on anti-scepticism, etc. / Alex Byrne ; What is my evidence that here is a hand? / Roger White ; The arbitrariness of belief / Martin Smith ; How to motivate scepticism / Dylan Dodd.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-150249-9

OCLC:

880456293