Abstract

Skepticism and foundations / Gilbert Harman -- How should we respond to scepticism with regard to the senses / Michael Ayers -- Scepticism and justification / Anthony Grayling -- Is knowledge easy--or impossible? Externalism as the only alternative to skepticism / James Van Cleve -- Three attempts to refute skepticism and why they fail / Richard Foley -- How a pyrrhonian skeptic might respond to academic skepticism / Peter Klein -- Skepticism, fallibility and circularity / Keith Lehrer -- Skepticism : what perception teaches / Fred Dretske -- Elusive knowledge / David Lewis -- Two diagnoses of skepticism / Robert Fogelin -- Responding to the sceptic : therapeutic versus theoretical diagnosis / Marie McGinn -- Neither contextualism nor skepticism / Ernest Sosa -- Indiscernability skepticism / Steven Luper -- Brains in vats / Hilary Putnam -- Trees, computer program features, and skeptical hypotheses / Anthony Brueckner -- Metaskepticism : meditations in ethno-epistemology / Shaun Nichols, Stephen Stich and Jonathan M. Weinberg -- Scepticism and the social construction of science and technology : the case of the boundary layer / David Bloor.