The Limits of Epistemology

ISBN-13: 9781509525676 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 448 str.

Markus Gabriel; Alex Englander

Spis treści

Preface to the English Edition Introduction Part I The Function of Scepticism Chapter 1 Negative Dogmatism and Methodological Scepticism Chapter 2 Kant's Negative Dogmatism Chapter 3 Metaphysical Realism and the Naïve Ontology of Individuals Chapter 4 Conceptual Relativity and the World Chapter 5 Direct and Indirect Sceptical Arguments: The Path to Semantic Nihilism Chapter 6 Crispin Wright's Implosion of Cartesian Scepticism and its Dialectic Part II Contextualism and the Finitude of Discourse Chapter 7 Pyrrhonian Scepticism as the Agent of Epistemology Chapter 8 Contextualism, Normativity and the Possibility of Discursive Determinacy Chapter 9 Private Language and Assertoric Content Chapter 10 The Diametrical Opposite of Solipsism Chapter 11 McDowell's Disjunctivism as an Anti-Sceptical Strategy Chapter 12 Stage-Setting and Discourse: The Community in Context Chapter 13 Solipsism's Representations and Cartesian Scepticism Chapter 14 The Failure of Liberal Naturalism's Metatheory Chapter 15 A Final Attempt to Recover the World: Brandom with Hegel Notes Bibliography

O autorze

Markus Gabriel was born in 1980 and studied in Heidelberg, Lisbon and New York. Since 2009 he has held the Chair for Epistemology at the University of Bonn--and with this appointment he became Germany's youngest philosophy professor. He is also the director of the International Center for Philosophy in Bonn.