RADICAL SCEPTICISM'S PRESUPPOSITIONS

BY ASHLEY PRINGLE


TABLE OF CONTENTS

ABSTRACT

V

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION

1

AGRIPPA'S TRILEMMA

1

CARTESIAN AND HUMEAN SCEPTICISM

3

THE ARGUMENT FROM ERROR

5

THE DIFFICULTY OF RADICAL SCEPTICISM

6

RESPONSES TO SCEPTICISM

9

MOORE

9

AUSTIN

13

QUINE

20

NOZICK AND DRETSKE

28

CHAPTER 2 THEORETICAL DIAGNOSIS AND CONTEXTUALISM

33

THE EPISTEMOLOGIST'S DILEMMA

33

WILLIAMS' ANTI-SCEPTICAL STRATEGY

37

EPISTEMOLOGICAL REALISM

42

FOUNDATIONALISM

43

SCEPTICISM AS THE BASIS FOR FOUNDATIONALISM, OR FOUNDATIONALISM AS THE BASIS FOR SCEPTICISM?

47

COHERENCE

56

CONTEXTUALISM

66

CHAPTER 3 OBJECTIONS TO CONTEXTUALISM AND ANTI-SCEPTICISM

79

DEROSE AND BLACK

79

RESPONSE

88

MCGINN AND SKORUPSKI

95

RESPONSE

100

STROUD

109

GRAHAM

113

CHAPTER 4 CONCLUSION

119

REFERENCES

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