Skepticism is one of the perennial problems of philosophy: from antiquity, to the early modern period of Descartes and Hume, and right through to the present day. It remains a fundamental and widely studied topic and, as Annalisa Coliva and Duncan Pritchard show in this book.

Introduction 1. The Skeptical Paradox 2. Content and Epistemic Externalism 3. The Denial of the Closure Principle and Contextualism 4. Hinge Epistemology and Closure-Based Cartesian Skepticism 5. Epistemological Disjunctivism 6. Moore, Liberals, and Conservatives 7. Varieties of Hinge Epistemology: Naturalism, Contextualism, and Constitutivism. Glossary Bibliography Index

Annalisa Coliva is Full Professor, Chancellor Fellow, and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine, USA. Her books include Moore and Wittgenstein: Scepticism, Certainty and Common Sense (2010), Extended Rationality: A Hinge Epistemology (2015), and The Varieties of Self-Knowledge (2016). With Maria Baghramian she is author of Relativism (Routledge, 2019).

Duncan Pritchard

is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Knowledge, Technology & Society at the University of California, Irvine, USA. His books include Epistemic Luck (2005), The Nature and Value of Knowledge (with Millar and Haddock, 2010), Epistemological Disjunctivism (2012), Epistemic Angst (2015), Scepticism: A Very Short Introduction (2019), and What Is This Thing Called Knowledge? (4th edn, Routledge, 2018).