The limits of epistemology / Markus Gabriel ; translated by Alex Englander and Markus Gabriel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gabriel, Markus, 1980- author.

Standardized Title:

An den Grenzen der Erkenntnistheorie. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Skepticism.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

ix, 371 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

English edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity, 2020.

Contents:

Part I The Function of Scepticism p. 11

1 Negative Dogmatism and Methodological Scepticism p. 13

2 Kant's Negative Dogmatism p. 26

3 Metaphysical Realism and the Naive Ontology of Individuals p. 42

4 Conceptual Relativity and the World p. 51

5 Direct and Indirect Sceptical Arguments: The Path to Semantic Nihilism p. 73

6 Crispin Wright's Implosion of Cartesian Scepticism and its Dialectic p. 88

Part II Contextualism and the Finitude of Discourse p. 113

7 Pyrrhonian Scepticism as the Agent of Epistemology p. 119

8 Contextualism, Normativity and the Possibility of Discursive Determinacy p. 128

9 Private Language and Assertoric Content p. 155

10 The Diametrical Opposite of Solipsism p. 178

11 McDowell's Disjunctivism as an Anti-Sceptical Strategy p. 191

12 Stage-Setting and Discourse: The Community in Context p. 202

13 Solipsism's Representations and Cartesian Scepticism p. 213

14 The Failure of Liberal Naturalism's Metatheory p. 239

15 A Final Attempt to Recover the World: Brandom with Hegel p. 249.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Gabriel, Markus, 1980- author. Limits of epistemology.

ISBN:

9781509525669

1509525661

9781509525676

150952567X

OCLC:

1104218673