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Epistemic Angst • Soochow University Lectures in Philosophy Chienkuo Mi, General Editor The Soochow University Lectures in Philosophy are given annually at Soochow University in Taiwan by leading international figures in contemporary analytic philosophy. Also in the series: Robert Audi, Moral Perception Scott Soames, What Is Meaning? Ernest Sosa, Knowing Full Well Epistemic Angst Radical Skepticism and the Groundlessness of Our Believing • Duncan Pritchard Princeton University Press Princeton and Oxford Copyright © 2016 by Princeton University Press Published in association with Soochow University (Taiwan) Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, 6 Oxford Street, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1TW press.princeton.edu Jacket art: Ghetto Theatre by David Bomberg. Courtesy of the Ben Uri Gallery and Museum, London. All Rights Reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Pritchard, Duncan. Epistemic angst : radical skepticism and the groundlessness of our believing / Duncan Pritchard. pages cm. — (Soochow University lectures in philosophy) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-691-16723-7 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Skepticism. 2. Knowledge, Theory of. 3. Belief and doubt. I. Title. B837.P75 2016 121—dc23 2015005925 British Library Cataloging- in- Publication Data is available Clarke epigram appears courtesy of the Journal of Philosophy 1972. Wittgenstein epigrams appear courtesy of Blackwell 1969. This book has been composed in Sabon LT Std Printed on acid- free paper. ∞ Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For Mandi, Ethan, and Alexander • What is the skeptic examining: our most fundamental convictions, or the product of a large piece of philosophising about empirical knowledge done before he comes on stage? — Thompson Clarke, “The Legacy of Skepticism,” 754 Contents • Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Part 1. Epistemic Angst 9 Chapter 1. Radical Skepticism and Closure 11 1. The Contemporary Radical Skeptical Paradox 11 2. Undercutting versus Overriding Anti-s keptical Strategies 16 3. An Overriding Anti- skeptical Strategy (I): Nonclosure 17 4. An Overriding Anti- skeptical Strategy (II): Epistemic Externalism 19 5. Radical Skepticism about Rationally Grounded Knowledge 22 6. An Overriding Anti- skeptical Strategy (III): Abductivism 25 7. Concluding Remarks 28 Chapter 2. Radical Skepticism and Underdetermination 29 0. Introductory Remarks 29 1. Radical Skepticism and the Underdetermination Principle 29 2. An Overriding Anti- skeptical Strategy: Epistemic Externalism 32 3. Attributer Contextualism as an Overriding Anti- skeptical Strategy 36 4. Attributer Contextualism as an Undercutting Anti- skeptical Strategy 40 5. Comparing the Two Forms of Radical Skepticism 46 6. The Source of Underdetermination- Based Radical Skepticism 49 7. Two Sources of Radical Skepticism 54 8. Anti- skeptical Desiderata 58
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