Author:
DeRose, Keith, 1962- author.
Edition Statement:First edition.
ImprintOxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Imprint2017
Descriptionxv, 303 pages : illustration ; 25 cm.
Note:Solving the Skeptical Problem -- Moorean Methodology: Was the Skeptic Doomed to Inevitable Defeat? -- Two Substantively Moorean Responses and the Project of Refuting Skepticism -- Contextualism and Skepticism: The Defeat of the Bold Skeptic -- Lotteries, Insensitivity, and Closure -- Insensitivity7: How Do We Know that We're Not Brains in Vats? Toward A Picture of Knowledge -- Appendices.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-299) and index.
Note:Keith DeRose presents, develops, and defends original solutions to two of the stickiest problems in epistemology: skeptical hypotheses and the lottery problem. He deploys a powerful version of contextualism, the view that the epistemic standards for the attribution of knowledge vary with context.
