| Chapter 1: Epistemic Value and What we Care about. I. Introduction. II. Epistemic demands and what we care about. III. Morality and epistemic demands. IV. Bullshit. V. Skepticism and what we care about. Chapter 2: Skepticism and Some Contemporary Responses. I. Introduction. II. The first stage of the skeptical attack: the infinite regress of reasons. A. Pyrrhonism and the regress. B. Responses to the regress: foundationalism vs. coherentism. III. The second stage of the skeptical attack: Descartes Evil Genius and the irrelevance of evidence. A. The Evil Genius. B. Denial of epistemic closure. C. Reliabilism. D. Contextualism. Chapter 3: Mind and World: Metaphysical and Semantic Responses to Skepticism. I. The third stage of the skeptical attack: the Absolute Conception of Reality. II. O.K. Bouwsma and the Evil Genius. III. Putnam and the Brain-in-a-Vat. IV. Skepticism, self-trust, and conscientious belief. Chapter 4: Trust and the Intellectual Virtues. I. Epistemic self-trust and the virtues that regulate it. A. Conscientious self-trust. B. Trust in admiration. II. Epistemic trust in others and the virtues of epistemic communities. A. Epistemic egoism as an ideal. B. The incoherence of epistemic egoism. C. Virtues of epistemic communities. III. Irresolvable epistemic disagreement. IV. Summary. Chapter 5: What is Knowledge? I. Introduction. II. The value problem. III. Gettier. IV. Credit theories of knowledge. Chapter 6: Epistemic Good and the Good Life. I. The desirability of truth. II. Understanding. III. The intellect and the highest good. |
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