Scepticism and the Foundation of Epistemology: A Study in the Metalogical Fallacies

PREFACE
CHAPTER ONE. THE OBJECT: ON THE NATURE OF KNOWLEDGES
1. Warburgian Microanalysis
2. Some Linguistic Preliminaries
3. \"Knowledges\" before Locke
4. The Disappearance of \"Knowledges\" after Locke
5. \"Knowledges\" in Late Scholastic Philosophy
6. Against Ockham\'s Eraser
7. Extensionalism and the Reinstatement of \"Knowledges\"
CHAPTER TWO. THE THEORY OF THE OBJECT: ON THE NATURE OF EPISTEMOLOGY
1. From Mereology to Set-theory
2. Knowing and Knowledges
3. Expressions vs. Studies of Knowledge
4. Οn the Logical Nature of the Expressions of Knowledge
5. On the Logical Nature of the Studies of Knowledges
6. Five Features of Epistemology
7. Is Epistemology an \'a priori\' Study of Knowledge?
8. On the Relation between Epistemology and the Cognitive Sciences
9. Towards the Problem of the Justification of a Philosophy of Knowledge
CHAPTER THREE. THE PROBLEM WITH THE THEORY A HISTORICAL RECONSTRUCTION
1. From Sets to Maps
2. The Sceptical Domain
2.1 Sextus Empiricus\' \'Diallelus\'
2.1.1. The Problem of the Criterion
2.2. Mercier\'s Criteriologie
2.3. Montaigne\'s Rouet
2.4. Chisholm\'s Problem of Criterion
3. The Cartesian Domain: Descartes\' Circle
4. The Kantian Domain
4.1 .Reinhold\'s Elementarphilosophie
4.2. Hegel\'s \"Scholasticus\' absurd resolution\"
4.3. Fries\' Trilemma
5. An Overview
CHAPTER FOUR. THE PROBLEM WITH THE THEORY A MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS
1. Three Routes
2. A Hierarchy of Levels
3. The Morphology of the Problem
4. Diagnosis of the Problem
4.1. The Logical Structure of the Problem
4.2. The Metaepistemological Nature of the Problem
4.2.1. Being Justified and Being Able to Justify
4.2.2. The Sceptical Dynamics of Falsificationism
5 .Features and Limits of Anti-sceptical Strategies
5.1. The Diallelus and the Fallacy of Secondary Effects
5.2. Husserl\'s erkenntnistheoretische Prinzip and the Naturalistic Fallacy
CHAPTER FIVE. THE SOLUTIONS OF THE PROBLEMA PHENOMENOLOGY
1. Apagogic Strategies
2. The Logical Roots of the Apagogic Solutions
3. On the Self-referential Nature of the Problem
3.1. Dogmatism
3.2. Cartesianism
4. On the Conditions of Possibility of the Problem: Transcendentalism
5. On the Justificatory Nature of the Problem
5.1. On the Logic of Justification
5.1.1. Definition vs. Criteria of Justification
5.1.2. Justification as a Property
5.1.3. Justification as a Relation
5.2. Foundationalism
5.3. Coherentism
5.4. Falsificationism
6. The Lesson to be learned from the Past
CHAPTER SIX. THE DISSOLUTION OF THE PROBLEMA PROPOSAL
1. From Foundationalism to Coherentism
2. Coherentism and the Problem of Internal Scepticism
3. Coherentism and the Problem of External Truth
4. From the Encyclopaedia to its Genesis
5. Two Sceptical Questions
6. Three Versions of the Genetic Question
7. Between Scylla and Charybdis
8. Justification: from Validation to Vindication
9. Feedback vs. Escalation
10. Two Final Problems
11. On the Logic of Production
12. The Possibility of a Sound Vindication of the Existence of the Encyclopaedia
12.1. The Demand for Knowledge: from Desire to Defence
13. The Possibility of a Sound Vindication of the Nature of the Encyclopaedia
14. On the Nature of a Gnoseology
15. From Epistemology to Gnoseolog
CHAPTER SEVEN. AGAINST THE DISSOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM THREE OBJECTIONS
1. The Philosophy of Knowledge: Questions and Disciplines
2. Three New Objections
3. Against the Nature of a Gnoseology
3.1. Reliabilism and Justified True Beliefs
3.2. Empirical Subjectivism
4. Against the Philosophical Role of a Gnoseology
4.1. Anti-Psychologism
4.2. Anti-Gnoseologism
5. Against the Philosophical Value of a Gnoseology
5.1. Naturalised Gnoseology?
5.2. Neurath\'s Metaphor: Between Shipwreck and Refurbishing
CONCLUSION: THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE DISSOLUTION THREE FUTURE TASKS
1. Three Future Tasks
2. A Metaphysical View
APPENDIX: DEFINITIONS, FORMULATIONS AND QUESTIONS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
GENERAL INDEX