• PART ONE


• Wittgenstein and the Concept of Human Knowledge


• I: Criteria and Judgment


• II: Criteria and Skepticism


• III: Austin and Examples


• IV: What a Think Is (Called)


• V: Natural and Conventional


• PART TWO


• Skepticism and the Existence of the World


• VI: The Quest of Traditional Epistemology: Opening


• VII: Excursus on Wittgenstein's Vision of Language


• VIII: The Quest of Traditional Epistemology: Closing


• PART THREE


• Knowledge and the concept of Morality


• IX: Knowledge and the Basis of Morality


• X: An Absence of Morality


• XI: Rules and Reasons


• XII: The Autonomy of Morals


• PART FOUR


• Skepticism and the Problem of Others


• XIII: Between Acknowledgment and Avoidance

This handsome new edition of Stanley Cavell's landmark text, first published 20 years ago, provides a new preface that discusses the reception and influence of his work, which occupies a unique niche between philosophy and literary studies.