The Mystery of Skepticism

Kevin McCain, PhD (2012), University of Rochester, is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His published research includes Evidentialism and Epistemic Justification (Routledge, 2014) and The Nature of Scientific Knowledge: An Explanatory Approach (Springer, 2016). Ted Poston, PhD (2006), University of Missouri-Columbia, is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the McCollough Institute for Pre-Medical Scholars at the University of Alabama. His published research includes Reason & Explanation: A Defense of Explanatory Coherentism (Palgrave, 2014) and A Contemporary Introduction to Knowledge-How (Bloomsbury, 2018).

List of Contributors

 1 The Mystery of Skepticism: An Introduction

 Kevin McCain and Ted Poston



Part I: Understanding Traditional Skeptical Arguments

 2 Procedural Reasons and the Problem of the Criterion

 Andrew D. Cling

 3 Is Cartesian Skepticism Too Cartesian?

 Jonathan Vogel

 4 Hume’s Certain Doubts: Why We Should Worry Too

 Kevin Meeker

 5 Skepticism as a Way of Life

 Baron Reed



Part II: New Skeptical Challenges

 6 Disagreement Skepticism and the Rationality of Religious Belief

 Jonathan Matheson

 7 Pragmatist Anti-Skepticism: At What Price?

 Scott Aikin and Thomas Dabay

 8 Extraordinary Skepticism

 Earl Conee

 9 Internalism, Memory, and Skepticism

 Brett Coppenger

 10 Inferential Internalism and the Problem of Unconscious Inference

 Richard Fumerton

 11 The Philosopher’s Doom: Unreliable at Truth or Unreliable at Logic

 Bryan Frances



Part III: New Responses to Skepticism

 12 The Skill Model: A Response to Skepticism about the Intellectual Virtues

 Sarah Wright

 13 Two Strategies for Explaining Away Skepticism

 Kevin McCain and Ted Poston

 14 Reasoning One’s Way Out of Skepticism

 Susanna Rinard