Essays on Skepticism [Hardcover]

The problem of skepticism about knowledge of the external world has been the centrepiece of epistemology since Descartes. In the last 25 years, there has been a keen focus of interest on the problem, with a number of new insights by the best contemporary epistemologists and philosophers of mind. Anthony Brueckner is recognized as one of the leading contemporary investigators of the problem of skepticism.
Essays on Skepticismcollects Brueckner's most important work in this area, providing a connected and comprehensive guide to the complex state of play on this intensively studied area of philosophy. The guiding questions of this volume are: Can we have knowledge of the external world of things outside our minds? Can we have knowledge of the internal world of our own contentful mental states? The work divides into four sections: I. Transcendental Arguments against Skepticism; II. Semantic Answers to Skepticism; III. Self-knowledge; IV. Skepticism and Epistemic Closure.

Introduction
I. Transcendental Arguments against Skepticism
1. Transcendental Arguments I
2. Transcendental Arguments II
3. The Anti-Skeptical Strategy of the Refutation of Idealism
4. Modest Transcendental Arguments
5. Transcendental Arguments from Content Externalism
6. Stroud's 'Transcendental Arguments' Reconsidered
II. Semantic Answers to Skepticism
7. Brains in a Vat
8. Semantic Answers to Skepticism
9. Trees, Computer Program Features, and Skeptical Hypotheses
10. Cartesian Skepticism, Content Externalism, and Self-Knowledge
11. Terms of Envatment
12. Charity and Skepticism
13. The Omniscient Interpreter Rides Again
14. Singular Thought and Cartesian Philosophy
III. Self-Knowledge
15. Scepticism about Knowledge of Content
16. Knowledge of Content and Knowledge of the World
17. Externalism and Memory
18. What an Anti-Individualist Knows A Priori
19. The Characterils