Recently the following understanding of epistemological skepticism has become widely accepted: skepticism about our knowledge of the world is not a thesis to be accepted or refuted; the philosophical problem skepticism presents is nothing but a paradox to be solved, a paradox given rise to by some apparently forceful arguments for skepticism. Call this the paradox view of skepticism. The parado...

The article discusses the proposals for replying to the skeptical challenge developed by the socalled Neo-mysterians, and more particularly by the most eloquent of them, Colin McGinn. McGinn’s version of mysterianism, which he labels “Transcendental Naturalism,” is a very candid and rigorous form of scientific naturalism since (contrary to the standard naturalistic views) it is prepared to conc...