Doubting Contemporary Perspectives on Skepticism
During the summer of 1986 one of the co-editors was a fellow at the Summer Institute in Epistemology held at the University of Colorado in Boulder. It was there that the idea for this volume was born. It was clear from the discussions taking place at the
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PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES SERIES
Editors:
tWILFRID SELLARS, University of Pittsburgh KEITH LEHRER, University of Arizona
Board of Consulting Editors:
JONATHAN BENNEIT, Syracuse University ALLAN GIBBARD, University of Michigan ROBERT STALNAKER, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ROBERT G. TURNBULL, Ohio State University
VOLUME 48
DOUBTING Contemporary Perspectives on Skepticism
Edited by
MICHAEL D. ROTH Franklin & Marshall College. Lancaster. U.SA.
and GLENN ROSS Franklin & Marshall College. Lancaster. U.SA.
KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS DORDRECHT / BOSTON / LONDON
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Doubtlng : contemporary perspectives ~n skepticism! edited by Michael D. Roth and Glenn Ross. p. cm. -- (Phi losophical studies series; v. 48) Includes bibliographical references. 1. Skepticism. Glenn, 1953BD201.D68 1989 121' .5--dc20
I. Roth, Michael David, 1936III. Series.
II. Ross, 89-29547
ISBN-J3: 978-94-010-7367-7 e-ISBN-13: 978-94-009-1942-6 DOl: 10.1007/978-94-009-1942-6
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
vii
MICHAEL D. ROTH AND GLENN ROSS / Introduction PART 1: CONCESSIONS JONATHAN VOGEL / Are There Counterexamples to the Closure Principle?
13
BREDO JOHNSEN / Relevant Alternatives and Demon Scepticism
29
STEVEN LUPER-FOY / Arbitrary Reasons
39
RICHARD FUMERTON / Metaepistemology and Skepticism
57
RICHARD FOLEY / Skepticism and Rationality
69
JONATHAN ADLER / Epistemic Universalizability: From Skepticism to Infallibilism
83
PETER KLEIN / Epistemic Compatibilism and Canonical Beliefs
99
PART 2: DENIALS RICHARD FELDMAN / Klein on Certainty and Canonical Beliefs
121
PAUL MOSER / Two Roads to Skepticism
127
DORIT BAR-ON / Justifying Beliefs: The Dream Hypothesis and Gratuitous Entities
141
JOHN HElL / Doubts About Skepticism
147
STEWART COHEN / Skepticism and Everyday Knowledge Attributions
161
ERNEST SOSA / Knowledge in Context, Skepticism in Doubt: The Virtue of Our Faculties
171
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FRED I. DRETSKE / The Epistemology of Belief
183
THOMAS TYMOCZKO / Brains Don't Lie: They Don't Even Make Many Mistakes
195
INDEX OF NAMES
215
INDEX OF SUBJECfS
217
PREFACE During the
