The epistemological debate about radical skepticism has focused on whether our beliefs in apparently obvious claims, such as the claim that we have hands, amount to knowledge. Arguably, however, concept of knowledge is only one many knowledge-like concepts there are. If this correct, it follows even if satisfy knowledge, are other relevantly similar they fail satisfy. And might give us pause. A...

Since its publication more than twenty years ago, Barry Stroud’s The Significance of Philosophical Scepticism has been widely read and discussed by philosophers who are interested in skepticism about our knowledge of the external world.1 Some of his later writings on the topic (such as Stroud (1989) and (1994)) are considered essential reading too. This does not, however, mean that what Stroud ...

I. In this paper I want to sketch an account of the role of skepticism in Kant's critical philosophy.1 The critical philosophy set forth in the Critique of Pure Reason (henceforth: the Critique) grew from and responds to a complex set of philosophical concerns. Among these two of special importance are concerns to address skepticism and to develop a reformed metaphysics. This much is widely rec...

It may be possible to scientifically test philosophical skepticism; at least this is what I shall maintain. The argument develops the naturalistic insight that there may be no particular reason to suppose that nature has selected Homo sapiens’ epistemic capacities such that we are ideally suited to forming a true theory of everything, or indeed, a true theory of much of anything. Just as chimpa...

In modern continental philosophy, nihilism has taken place as an important train of thought, both a consequence Christian European society and novel skeptic argument. It calls for the total removal current because humanity now metaphorically God thus should create its own values structure. The replacement can be attributed to skepticism, which refutes possibility certain knowledge. This paper c...