Limits of Epistemology

Markus Gabriel was born in 1980 and studied in Heidelberg, Lisbon and New York. Since 2009 he has held the Chair for Epistemology at the University of Bonn—and with this appointment he became Germany’s youngest philosophy professor. He is also the director of the International Center for Philosophy in Bonn.

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• Preface to the English Edition                                        Introduction                                                          Part I               The Function of Scepticism                       Chapter 1 Negative Dogmatism and Methodological ScepticismChapter 2 Kant’s Negative Dogmatism              Chapter 3 Metaphysical Realism and the Naïve Ontology of IndividualsChapter 4 Conceptual Relativity and the World         Chapter 5 Direct and Indirect Sceptical Arguments: The Path to Semantic Nihilism                           Chapter 6 Crispin Wright’s Implosion of Cartesian Scepticism and its Dialectic                                     Part II              Contextualism and the Finitude of Discourse           Chapter 7 Pyrrhonian Scepticism as the Agent of EpistemologyChapter 8 Contextualism, Normativity and the Possibility of Discursive Determinacy                           Chapter 9 Private Language and Assertoric Content     Chapter 10 The Diametrical Opposite of Solipsism Chapter 11 McDowell’s Disjunctivism as an Anti-Sceptical StrategyChapter 12 Stage-Setting and Discourse: The Community in ContextChapter 13 Solipsism’s Representations and Cartesian ScepticismChapter 14 The Failure of Liberal Naturalism’s Metatheory   Chapter 15 A Final Attempt to Recover the World: Brandom with HegelNotesBibliography