Radical skepticism and the shadow of doubt: a philosophical dialogue
"Radical Skepticism and the Shadow of Doubt brings something new to epistemology both in content and style. At the outset we are asked to imagine a person named Vatol who grows up in a world containing numerous people who are brains-in-vats and who hallucinate their entire lives. Would Vatol ha...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Radical Skepticism and the Shadow of Doubt brings something new to epistemology both in content and style. At the outset we are asked to imagine a person named Vatol who grows up in a world containing numerous people who are brains-in-vats and who hallucinate their entire lives. Would Vatol have reason to doubt whether he himself is in contact with reality? If he does have reason to doubt, would he doubt, or is it impossible for a person to have such doubts? And how do we ourselves compare to Vatol? After reflection, can we plausibly claim that Vatol has reason to doubt, but we don't? These are the questions that provide the novel framework for the debates in this book. Topics that are treated here in significantly new ways include: the view that we ought to doubt only when we philosophize; epistemological "dogmatism"; and connections between radical doubt and "having a self." The book adopts the innovative form of a "dialogue/play." The three characters, who are Talmud students as well as philosophers, hardly limit themselves to pure philosophy, but regale each other with Talmudic allusions, reminiscences, jokes, and insults. For them the possibility of doubt emerges as an existential problem with potentially deep emotional significance. Setting complex arguments about radical skepticism within entertaining dialogue, this book can be recommended for both beginners and specialists."--Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Beschreibung: | x, 238 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9781350033849 9781350033856 |
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Preface ix
Radical skepticism and the shadow of doubt:
A philosophical dialogue 1
Characters, setting, announcement 3
Act I Vatols anxiety 5
Introduction to Levs question 6
The example of Vatol 14
Yitzhak’s reaction to skepticism, and Williamson’s 21
On the nature of this work 25
The “two-level” view of the impossibility of doubt 27
The meaning of “reasons” to doubt 30
Relationships between “doubt,” “belief” “assertion,” and
“certainty” 35
Further connections between “doubt,” “anxiety,” and “knowledge”
Interlude: Waiting for Godot 51
A connection to Nagel’s skepticism 55
Interlude: philosophy and comedy 63
A challenge to Lev’s assumptions about epistemic anxiety 65
Act II Vatol and Us 69
The n-to-n+1 argument 70
A safety condition on belief 78
Interlude: memories of Berkeley 81
Pryors epistemic principle 83
VI
CONTENTS
Distinction between one-level and two-level cases 89
Interlude: Talmudic connections 94
The “non-circularity” condition 99
Daniels challenges to Yitzhaks view 103
Yitzhak’s stringent response to ‘entering a loop” 107
Yitzhak s Austinian answer to the problem of dreams 111
Interlude: finding an “eitzah” 129
Summary 131
Three additional questions 133
Levs disagreement with Yitzhak 138
Act III The Impossibility of Doubt 143
Levs past epistemic anxiety 143
Interlude: memories from Yeshiva 148
Levs first argument for the impossibility of doubt 152
The first premise of Levs first argument 159
A question about valuing ones life on the basis of probabilities 167
A comparison of Levs position with Kant s and Wittgensteins 172
Interlude: Yitzhaks tale 177
Levs second argument 179
The meaning of “having a self” 188
Interlude: Yitzhaks pride and shame 196
Relationship between the notions of “self” and “identification” 198
Broughtons suggestion that Hume did not identify with his belief in
an external reality 203
Levs epistemic attitude 210
Notes 221
Glossary 227
References 228
Index 233
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