This volume brings out the varieties of forms of philosophical skepticism that have continued
to preoccupy philosophers for the past of couple of centuries as well as the specific
varieties of philosophical response that these have engendered - above all in the work of
those who have sought to take their cue from Kant Wittgenstein or Cavell - and to illuminate
how these philosophical approaches are related to and bear upon one another. The philosophers
brought together in this volume are united by the thought that a proper appreciation of the
depth of the skeptical challenge must reveal it to be deeply disquieting in the sense that
skepticism threatens not just some set of theoretical commitments but also-and
fundamentally-our very sense of self world and other. Second that skepticism is the proper
starting point for any serious attempt to make sense of what philosophy is and to gauge the
prospects of philosophical progress.
