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04654aam a2200397Ii 4500 001 7F399922840911E89478B85797128E48 003 SILO 005 20180710010618 008 161226t20182018enk b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9781350033849 020 $a 1350033847 020 $a 9781350033856 020 $a 1350033855 035 $a (OCoLC)967029278 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d CDX $d OCLCF $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d NAM $d OCL $d W2U $d SILO 050 4 $a B837 $b .H57 2018 082 04 $a 149/.73 $2 23 100 1 $a Hirsch, Eli, $e author. 245 10 $a Radical skepticism and the shadow of doubt : $b a philosophical dialogue / $c Eli Hirsch. 264 1 $a London : $b Bloomsbury, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, $c 2018. 300 $a x, 238 pages ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-232) and index. 520 8 $a Radical Skepticism and the Shadow of Doubt brings something new to epistemology both in content and style. At the outset we are asked to imagine a person named Vatol who grows up in a world containing numerous people who are brains-in-vats and who hallucinate their entire lives. Would Vatol have reason to doubt whether he himself is in contact with reality? If he does have reason to doubt, would he doubt, or is it impossible for a person to have such doubts? And how do we ourselves compare to Vatol? After reflection, can we plausibly claim that Vatol has reason to doubt, but we don't? These are the questions that provide the novel framework for the debates in this book. Topics that are treated here in significantly new ways include: the view that we ought to doubt only when we philosophize; epistemological "dogmatism"; and connections between radical doubt and "having a self." The book adopts the innovative form of a "dialogue/play." The three characters, who are Talmud students as well as philosophers, hardly limit themselves to pure philosophy, but regale each other with Talmudic allusions, reminiscences, jokes, and insults. For them the possibility of doubt emerges as an existential problem with potentially deep emotional significance. Setting complex arguments about radical skepticism within entertaining dialogue, this book can be recommended for both beginners and specialists. 505 00 $a Machine generated contents note: $t Lev's epistemic attitude. $t Characters, setting, announcement -- $g Act III $t Vatol's anxiety -- $t Introduction to Lev's question -- $t The example of Vatol -- $t Yitzhak's reaction to skepticism, and Williamson's -- $t On the nature of this work -- $t The "two-level" view of the impossibility of doubt -- $t The meaning of "reasons" to doubt -- $t Relationships between "doubt," "belief," "assertion," and "certainty" -- $t Further connections between "doubt," "anxiety," and "knowledge" -- $t Interlude: Waiting for Godot -- $t A connection to Nagel's skepticism -- $t Interlude: philosophy and comedy -- $t A challenge to Lev's assumptions about epistemic anxiety -- $g Act II $t Vatol and Us -- $t The n-to-n+1 argument -- $t A safety condition on belief -- $t Interlude: memories of Berkeley -- $t Pryor's epistemic principle -- $t Distinction between one-level and two-level cases -- $t Interlude: Talmudic connections -- $t The "non-circularity" condition -- $t Daniels challenges to Yitzhak's view -- $t Yitzhak's stringent response to "entering a loop" -- $t Yitzhak's Austinian answer to the problem of dreams -- $t Interlude: finding an "eitzah" -- $t Summary -- $t Three additional questions -- $t Lev's disagreement with Yitzhak -- $g Act III $t The Impossibility of Doubt -- $t Lev's past epistemic anxiety -- $t Interlude: memories from Yeshiva -- $t Lev's first argument for the impossibility of doubt -- $t The first premise of Lev's first argument -- $t A question about valuing one's life on the basis of probabilities -- $t A comparison of Lev's position with Kant's and Wittgenstein's -- $t Interlude: Yitzhak's tale -- $t Lev's second argument -- $t The meaning of "having a self" -- $t Interlude: Yitzhak's pride and shame -- $t Relationship between the notions of "self" and "identification" -- $t Broughton's suggestion that Hume did not identify with his belief in an external reality -- $t Lev's epistemic attitude. 650 0 $a Skepticism. 650 0 $a Belief and doubt. 650 0 $a Anxiety. 650 0 $a Pilpul. 650 7 $a Skeptizismus $2 gnd 650 7 $a Anxiety. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00810950 650 7 $a Belief and doubt. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00830124 650 7 $a Pilpul. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01064138 650 7 $a Skepticism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01119940 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191217025334.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7F399922840911E89478B85797128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search