Living Skepticism. Essays in Epistemology and Beyond

Stephen Hetherington (Ph.D., Pittsburgh) is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, UNSW, Sydney. His books include Good Knowledge, Bad Knowledge (OUP, 2001), How to Know (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), and Knowledge and the Gettier Problem (CUP, 2016). He also served as Editor-in-Chief for the Australasian Journal of Philosophy 2013–22. David Macarthur (Ph.D., Harvard) is Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Sydney. He edited the volume Hilary & Ruth-Anna Putnam’s Pragmatism as a Way of Life (Harvard, 2017) and co-edited, with Mario De Caro, Naturalism in Question (Harvard, 2004), Naturalism and Normativity (Columbia, 2010), Hilary Putnam: Philosophy in an Age of Science (Harvard, 2012), and Hilary Putnam: Philosophy as Dialogue (Harvard, 2022).

Notes on Contributors


Introduction: Skepticism as a Way of Thinking

  Stephen Hetherington and David Macarthur



1 Skepticism and Metaphysics

  Barry Allen



2 No Moral Ground: Political Content and the Emptiness of Ethics

  Anat Matar



3 A Material Defense of Inductive Inference

  John D. Norton



4 The Recovery of the Human: Cavell, Skepticism, Romanticism

  Nikolas Kompridis



5 Skepticism & Naturalism of Other Minds: Remarks on the (In)visibility of Other Minds

  David Macarthur



6 A Defense of Transcendental Arguments

  Stephen L. White



7 Content-Determinacy Skepticism and Phenomenal Intentionality

  Terry Horgan and George Graham



8 Skeptical Politics

  Andrew Norris



9 Fallible Knowing, Fallible Acting

  Stephen Hetherington



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