Synopses & Reviews
Since the 1970s Barry Stroud has been one of the most original contributors to the philosophical study of human knowledge. This volume presents the best of Stroud's essays in this area. Throughout, he seeks to clearly identify the question that philosophical theories of knowledge are meant to answer, and the role scepticism plays in making sense of that question. In these seminal essays, he suggests that people pursuing epistemology need to concern themselves with whether philosophical scepticism is true or false. Stroud's discussion of these fundamental questions is essential reading for anyone whose work touches on the subject of human knowledge.
About the Author
Barry Stroud is Mills Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Scepticism and the Possibility of Knowledge (1984)
2. Transcendental Arguments (1968)
3. Doubts about the Legacy of Scepticism (1972)
4. Taking Scepticism Seriously (1977)
5. Reasonable Claims: Cavell and the Tradition
6. Transcendental Arguments and 'Epistemological Naturalism' (1977)
7. The Allure of Idealism (1984)
8. Understanding Human Knowledge in General (1989)
9. Epistemological Reflection on Knowledge of the External World (1996)
10. Scepticism, 'Externalism', and the Goal of Epistemology
11. Kantian Argument, Conceptual Capacities, and Invulnerability (1994)
12. Radical Interpretation and Philosophical Scepticism (1999)
13. The Goal of Transcendental Arguments (1999)
14. The Synthetic A Priori in Strawson's Kantianism (1990)
Index