Table of Contents

Preface; 1. The nature of skeptical arguments and their role in philosophical inquiry; 2. Skepticism about the world: part I - reconstructions; 3. Skepticism about the world: part II - dismissive responses; 4. Skepticism about the world: part III - dualism, realism and representationalism; 5. The argument from an infinite regress of reasons; 6. Hume's skepticism about unobserved matters of fact; 7. Agent reliabilism; 8. Agent reliabilism and the relevant sense of 'relevant possibility'; 9. Moral and religious epistemology; Bibliography; Index.

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This book, first published in 2000, examines the nature of skeptical arguments and their role in philosophical inquiry.

Reviews

"...an important book...Greco's writing is crystal clear and the volume is well organized. It is impossible to get lost in a chapter and easy to see how each chapters fits into the progression of the essay. Furthermore, the volume is attractively produced with clean printing, notes at the foot, a solid bibliography, and a reasonable index." Philosophical Review "Greco's book stands out...as one of the best books on skepticism in the last twenty years, earning it a place alongside Stroud's masterful The Significance of Philosophical Scepticism and Williams's already-lauted Unnatural Doubts. Any serious epistemologist, of any stripe or persuasion, would be benefited by reading it..." Review of Metaphysics