...Ted A. Warfield PUTTING SKEPTICS IN THEIR PLACE: THE NATURE OF SKEPTICAL ARGUMENTS AND THEIR ROLE IN PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY. By John Greco. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xvi, 264. Cornell University 2001 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Matthew McGrath [email protected] Pinillos Ángel , Why We Doubt: A Cognitive Account of Our Skeptical Inclinations . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2023 . viii + 277 pp. © 2024 by Cornell University 2024 In Why We Doubt: A Cognitive Account of Our Skeptical...

...Paul Draper © 2012 by Cornell University 2012 Schellenberg J. L. , The Will to Imagine: A Justification of Skeptical Religion . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2009 . xv +267 pp . BOOK REVIEWS Frederick C. Beiser, Diotima’s Children...

... despise Philosophy, and renounce its guidance, let my soul dwell with Common Sense.”1 But Reid’s announcement holds only if skepticism can’t be refuted, and what Reid takes himself to have done is pre- cisely that: refute skepticism. Philip de Bary’s Thomas Reid and Scepticism: His Reliabilist...

... account of what he calls the “Agrippan trilemma.” All substantive philosoph- ical positions face a common skeptical challenge. In any attempt to justify their view, they seem to necessarily end up in (i) an arbitrary assumption, (ii) a vicious circle, or (iii) an infinite regress. What makes Franks’s...

... for excluding “serious skeptical doubts even about the existence of one’s own current subjective experience (and a fortiori about objective experience)” (82). Finally, unlike Hegel (Forster’s first and continuing love), Kant does not recog- nize the possibility of skepticism about the most fundamental laws...

.... Graciela De Pierris aims to give a new account of the relationship between Hume's skepticism and his naturalism. Notoriously, Hume gives skeptical arguments targeting our best methods of inquiry, such as inductive reasoning. So, how can he—in good intellectual conscience—endorse and rely on those very...

... Readings, ed. Louis Pojman, 373 -84. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth. Stroud, Barry. 1989 . “Understanding Human Knowledge in General.” In Knowledge and Skepticism, ed. Marjorie Clay and Keith Lehrer, 31 -49. Boulder: Westview Press. ____. 1994 . “Scepticism, `Externalism,' and the Goal...

... in this dra- matic way. One of them was David Lewis’s “Elusive Knowledge,” which came out in 1996. The other was Keith DeRose’s “Solving the Skeptical Problem,” which came out in 1995. Both are now classics of contemporary epistemology. A key part in the tremendous wave of interest that ensued off...

... knowledge claims. This piece of skeptical reasoning is often known as the problem of the criterion, as it was first used by Pyrrhonist philosophers to challenge the Stoics’ claim to have found a criterion of truth.8 The threat of skepticism is not the only consideration blocking the adoption of WR...

... of many examples) M. F. Burnyeat, “Can the Skeptic Live His Skepticism?” in The Skeptical Tradition, ed. M. F. Burnyeat (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983), 117-48, at 11 8-19 (origi- nally published in Doubt and Dogmatism, ed. M. Schofield, M. Burnyeat, and J. Barnes (Oxford: Oxford...

... how to correct my former opinions, nor how to render them consistent” (T App 10; SBN 633). He therefore retreats to skepticism about minds: “I must plead the privilege of a sceptic, and confess, that this difficulty is too hard for my understanding” (T App 21; SBN 636). But Hume says little to explain...

... or characterize adequately either [Hume’s skeptical or naturalistic commitments] without making full and proper reference to his irreligious intentions. That is to say thereisnoproper or convincing way to explain Hume’s skeptical and naturalistic moti- vations that is entirely...

... Scepticism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xii þ380 pp. Ancient Greek skepticism was a significant philosophical movement in its time (the Hellenistic and early Roman imperial eras), and it became important again in the early modern period. A Cambridge Companion was therefore inevitable...

...Stefan Sienkiewicz Perin Casey , The Demands of Reason: An Essay on Pyrrhonian Scepticism . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2010 . 130 pp. © 2013 by Cornell University 2013 To give a complete and completely consistent account of Pyrrhonian skepticism as it is found...

...Kelly Becker Zalabardo José L. , Scepticism and Reliable Belief . Oxford : Oxford University Press , xi +215 pp. © 2014 by Cornell University 2014 José Zalabardo takes an unusual approach to skepticism in this book. Most epistemologists acknowledge the force of skepticism...

... Press. Stough, Charlotte. 1969 . Greek Skepticism . Berkeley: University of California Press. BOOK REVIEWS The Philosophical Review, Vol. 112, No. 1 (January 2003) Alan Bailey, Sextus Empiricus and Pyrrhonean Scepticism. Oxford: Oxford Univer- sity...

... for traditional skeptical views in epistemology. In particular, it argues that on certain popular views about the nature of belief, it is impossible to adopt the near-global agnosticism recommended by the skeptical epistemologist. On other plausible views, it is possible only in special circumstances...

... and discharges some remaining grounds for resistance to these skeptical conclusions, as well as the possibility of defending a weaker version of a normative lottery principle. The conclusion is that we have no reason to believe that where equal claims conflict, we are morally required to hold a lottery...