Why We Doubt A Cognitive Account of Our Skeptical Inclinations

N. Ángel Pinillos, Associate Professor, Arizona State University

N. Ángel Pinillos is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ. He earned a BS in Mathematics from Tufts University and a PhD in Philosophy from Rutgers University. He has authored numerous scholarly articles on cognitive science and epistemology as well as on the philosophy of language. Pinillos has presented his work in over a dozen countries and has also written for public venues, including the New York Times.

Introduction and Book Summary
Part I: Skeptical Tension
1. The Need for an Explanation
Part II: The Positive Account
2. The Skeptical Rule
3. Broad Function (Part 1)
4. Broad Function (Part 2)
5. Narrow Function
Part III: Applications
6. Solving the Skeptical Paradox
7. Skepticism in Society
8. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
9. Varieties of Doubt
Part IB: Competing Views and Objections
10. Philosophically Accommodating Accounts
11. Psychological Accounts
12. Objections to Sensitivity
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