Living Skepticism: Essays in Epistemology and Beyond PDF
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Living Skepticism Brill Studies in Skepticism Editors Diego Machuca (conicet, Argentina) Duncan Pritchard (University of California, Irvine) Advisory Board John Greco (Saint Louis University) John Christian Laursen (University of California, Riverside) Casey Perin (University of California, Irvine) Dominik Perler (Humboldt- Universitat zu Berlin) Claudine Tiercelin (Collège de France) volume 5 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/bss Living Skepticism Essays in Epistemology and Beyond Edited by Stephen Hetherington and David Macarthur LEIDEN | BOSTON The Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data is available online at https://cata log.loc.gov lc record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022033676 Typeface for the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts: “Brill”. See and download: brill.com/brill-t ypeface. issn 2215- 177x isbn 978- 90- 04- 52540- 5 (hardback) isbn 978- 90- 04- 52547- 4 (e- book) Copyright 2022 by Stephen Hetherington and David Macarthur. Published by Koninklijke Brill nv, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill nv incorporates the imprints Brill, Brill Nijhoff, Brill Hotei, Brill Schöningh, Brill Fink, Brill mentis, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Böhlau and V&R unipress. Koninklijke Brill nv reserves the right to protect this publication against unauthorized use. Requests for re-use and/ or translations must be addressed to Koninklijke Brill nv via brill.com or copyright.com. This book is printed on acid- free paper and produced in a sustainable manner. Contents N otes on Contributors vii I ntroduction: Skepticism as a Way of Thinking 1 Stephen Hetherington and David Macarthur 1 S kepticism and Metaphysics 10 Barry Allen 2 N o Moral Ground: Political Content and the Emptiness of Ethics 31 Anat Matar 3 A Material Defense of Inductive Inference 54 John D. Norton 4 T he Recovery of the Human: Cavell, Skepticism, Romanticism 73 Nikolas Kompridis 5 S kepticism and Naturalism of Other Minds: Remarks on the (In)visibility of Other Minds 107 David Macarthur 6 A Defense of Transcendental Arguments 121 Stephen L. White 7 C ontent- Determinacy Skepticism and Phenomenal Intentionality 139 Terry Horgan and George Graham 8 S keptical Politics 161 Andrew Norris 9 F allible Knowing, Fallible Acting 179 Stephen Hetherington I ndex 201 Notes on Contributors Barry Allen is Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy, McMaster University, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His work in philosophy concen- trates on the concept of knowledge, which he studies from interdisciplinary and multi- cultural perspectives, addressing a wide audience in contempo- rary and comparative philosophy and the human sciences. His books explore the relationship of art to knowledge and knowledge to civilization, and com- pare Chinese and Western ideas about knowledge. He is the author of Truth in Philosophy (1993), Knowledge and Civilization (2004), Art and Technology in Human Experience (2008), Knowledge in Chinese Tradition (2015), and A Philosophical Look at the Asian Martial Arts (2015). George Graham is Professor of Philosophy at Georgia State University. His areas of specializa- tion include philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychopathology (philosophy, psychiatry, mental illness), consciousness and intentionality. He has co- edited Person to Person (Temple University, 1989); Philosophical Psychopathology (mit, 1994); Philosophy Then and Now (Blackwell, 1998); Companion to Cognitive Science (Blackwell, 1998); When Self- Consciousness Breaks: Alien Voices and Inserted Thoughts (mit, 2000); The Oxford Textbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry (Oxford, 2006); Identifying the Mind: Selected Essays of U. T. Place (Oxford, 2004); Reconceiving Schizophrenia (Oxford, 2007); The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry (2013); Addiction and Responsibility (mit, 2011). He is also author of Philosophy of Mind: An Introduction (Blackwell, 1998); The Disordered Mind (Routledge, 2013), The Abraham Dilemma: A Divine Delusion (Oxford, 2015). Stephen Hetherington is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. He is Editor-i n- Chief of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy and of the series Elements in Epistemology, for Cambridge University Press. Author of more than one hundred papers, he is also the author of research mono- graphs – more recently, Knowledge and the Gettier Problem (Cambridge University Press, 2016) – and introductory books – most recently, What Is Epistemology? (Polity Press, 2019). He has also edited, co- edited, and general- edited many books – most recently, with N.D. Smith, What the Ancients Offer to Contemporary Epistemology (Routledge, 2020). viii Notes on Contributors Terry Horgan is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona. His areas of special- ization include metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind and metaeth- ics. He is the author of Connectionism and the Philosophy of Psychology [with J. Tienson] (Bradford/ m.i.t., 1996); Austere Realism: Contextual Semantics Meets Minimal Ontology [with M. Potrč] (mit, 2008); The Epistemological Spectrum: At the Interface of Cognitive Science and Conceptual Analysis [with D. Henderson] (Oxford, 2011); and Essays on Paradoxes (Oxford, 2017). Nikolas Kompridis was formerly Research Professor in Philosophy and Political Thought and Foundation Director of the Institute for Social Justice at the Australian Catholic University. His areas of specialisation are 19th and 20th century European Philosophy; Critical Theory, aesthetics and political philosophy. He is the author of The Aesthetic Turn (Bloomsbury, 2014), Critique and Disclosure (mit Press, 2006), and Philosophical Romanticism (Routledge, 2006). He is cur- rently completing two books on Aesthetics and Political Theory, and Critique and Receptivity. David Macarthur is Associate Professor in Philosophy at The University of Sydney. He has pub- lished widely on liberal naturalism, metaphysical quietism, skepticism, com- mon sense, perception, ordinary language, and philosophy of art (especially architecture, photography and film). He edited Hilary & Ruth- Anna Putnam, Pragmatism as a Way of Life (Harvard University Press, 2017) and, with Mario De Caro, co- edited: Naturalism in Question (Harvard University Press, 2004); Naturalism and Normativity (Columbia University Press, 2010); Hilary Putnam, Philosophy in an Age of Science (Harvard University Press, 2012); and Hilary Putnam: Philosophy as Dialogue (Harvard University Press, 2022). Anat Matar is senior lecturer of philosophy in Tel Aviv University. Her areas of special- ization include philosophy of language, political philosophy, philosophy and literature, modernism and postmodernism, meta- philosophy; the philos- ophies of Wittgenstein, Dummett, Derrida, and Lyotard. She is also a politi- cal activist advocating for: Palestinian political prisoners; resistance to serve in the Israeli army; democratization of academia; criticism of Zionism; and the 1967 Occupation of the Palestinian Territories. She is the author of From Dummett’s Philosophical Perspective (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1997); Modernism and Notes on Contributors ix the Language of Philosophy (London: Routledge, 2006); and The Poverty of Ethics (London: Verso, 2022). Andrew Norris is Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His areas of specialization include political philos- ophy, skepticism, and the thought of Stanley Cavell. He is the editor of three books: Truth and Democracy (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012), The Claim to Community: Essays on Stanley Cavell and Political Philosophy (Stanford University Press, 2006), and Politics, Metaphysics, and Death: Essays on Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer (Duke University Press, 2005); as well as the author of Becoming Who We Are: Politics and Practical Philosophy in the Work of Stanley Cavell (Oxford University Press, 2017). John D. Norton is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. His areas of specialization include the history and philosophy of physics and the general philosophy of science. He is the author of a web- book Einstein for Everyone, and will soon publish two related books, The Material Theory of Induction and The Large- Scale Structure of Inductive Inference. Stephen L. White is Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University. He did his undergraduate work in philosophy and mathematics at Berkeley and a second ba in philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford. He studied filmmaking briefly at ucla before returning to Berkeley for his Ph.D. in philosophy. His areas of specializa- tion include philosophy of mind, the self, transcendental argument, and skep- ticism. His current interests outside philosophy include film and photography. He is the author of Unity of the Self (2001).
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