Table Of ContentLiving Skepticism
Brill Studies in Skepticism
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Diego Machuca (conicet, Argentina)
Duncan Pritchard (University of California, Irvine)
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John Christian Laursen (University of California, Riverside)
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Living Skepticism
Essays in Epistemology and Beyond
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Stephen Hetherington and David Macarthur
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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).
