Transcendental Arguments and Scepticism

Robert Stern investigates how scepticism can be countered by using transcendental arguments concerning the necessary conditions for the possibility of experience, language, or thought. He shows that the most damaging sceptical questions concern neither the certainty of our beliefs nor the reliability of our belief-forming methods, but rather how we can justify our beliefs.

Robert Stern is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Sheffield.

Introduction

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0.1 Transcendental arguments and scepticism

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0.2 The nature of transcendental arguments

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0.3 Outline of chapters

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1. Scepticism and Epistemology

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1.1 Scepticism: epistemic and justificatory

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1.2 Justificatory scepticism: two varieties

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1.3 The problem of induction: reliabilist vs. normativist justificatory scepticism

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2. Transcendental Arguments: Objections

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2.1 The verificationism objection

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2.2 The idealism objection

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2.3 The modal objection

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2.4 Prospects

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3. Transcendental Arguments: Strategies

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3.1 Transcendental arguments and epistemic scepticism

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3.1.1 The foundationalist strategy

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3.1.2 The strong criteriological strategy

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3.1.3 The framework strategy

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3.2 Transcendental arguments and normativist justificatory scepticism

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3.2.1 The inferential strategy

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3.2.2 The phenomenological strategy

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3.2.3 The coherentist strategy

102

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3.2.4 The modest criteriological strategy

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3.2.5 The naturalist strategy

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3.3 Transcendental arguments and reliabilist justificatory scepticism

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3.3.1 The reliabilist strategy

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3.3.2 The meta-level naturalist strategy

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3.4 Summary and prospects

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4. The Problem of the External World

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4.1 The problem of the external world and varieties of scepticism

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4.2 Putnam's refutation of the brain-in-a-vat hypothesis

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4.3 Strawson's objectivity argument

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4.4 Kant's Refutation of Idealism

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4.5 Hegel on perception

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4.6 Conclusion

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5. The Problem of Causality

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5.1 The problem of causality and varieties of scepticism

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5.2 Kant and coherence as a norm

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5.3 Kant's Second Analogy

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5.4 Objections and replies

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5.4.1 Causality as a constitutive principle

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5.4.2 Kant's response to Hume as an argument from indispensability

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5.4.3 Coherentism and idealism

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5.4.4 Coherence as a doxastic norm

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6. The Problem of Other Minds

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6.1 The problem of other minds and varieties of scepticism

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6.2 Davidson on other minds

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6.3 Strawson on other minds

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Conclusion

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Bibliography

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Index

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