EBOOK Essays on Skepticism

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 Skepticism collects 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.