The Appearance of Ignorance: Knowledge, Skepticism, and Context, Volume 2

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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.

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Full title :The Appearance of Ignorance : Knowledge, Skepticism, and Context, Volume 2.

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Publication Date:2018.

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Publisher(s):OUP Oxford
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2018.

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3.7. The Challenges Facing Non-Heroic, Moorean Alternative Responses

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Description:1 online resource (320 pages)

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ISBN:9780192535900, 0192535900, 9780191846021, 0191846023
oclc:on1020032966
LC Classification:B809.14
Dewey Decimal:149

Cover; The Appearance of Ignorance: Knowledge, Skepticism, and Context, Volume 2; Copyright; Preface and Acknowledgments; WhatÂś Old and WhatÂś New in this Book; A ReaderÂś Guide to the Longer Chapters; Ignorance; Other Acknowledgements; Contents; Detailed Contents; 1: Solving the Skeptical Problem; 1.1. The Puzzle of Skeptical Hypotheses; 1.2. Contextualist Solutions: The Basic Strategy; 1.3. Some Old Contextualist Solutions: LewisÂś ``Rule of AccommodationÂÁ̂;́ 1.4. Some Old Contextualist Solutions: The ``Relevant AlternativesÂÁ̂ ́Approach and the Rule of Relevance

1.5. The Subjunctive Conditionals Account (SCA) of the Plausibility of AIÂś First Premise1.6. SCA, Grandmothers, and Methods; 1.7. SCA and Some Skeptical Hypotheses that DonÂt́ Work; 1.8. SCA Confirmed; 1.9. NozickÂś Own Solution and the Abominable Conjunction; 1.10. Strength of Epistemic Position and AIÂś Second Premise; 1.11. Strength and Sensitivity; 1.12. The Rule of Sensitivity and the Beginnings of a New Contextualist Solution; 1.13. The Rule of Sensitivity and SCA: A Comparison of Our New Solution with the Other Contextualist Solutions and with Nozickâ#x80;#x99;s Solution

1.14. Our New Contextualist Solution Clari…