Table of Contents

1: Knowledge and Certainty.- 1. Three Conditions of Certainty.- 2. Modal Accounts of Certainty.- 3. The Infallibilist’s View of Certainty.- 4. Direct Knowledge and Infallibility.- 2: Certainty and Fallibilism.- 1. Possible Mistakes About Necessity.- 2. Incorrigibility of the Cogito.- 3. Certainty and the Cogito.- 3: Certainty and Sensations.- 1. The Fallibilist Argument.- 2. Standard Objections.- 3. Are Basic Propositions Incorrigible?.- 4: The Nature of Justification.- 1. Theories of Justification.- 2. Abilities and Reasons.- 3. Proof and Justification.- 4. The Nature of Justification.- 5. Alternative Explanations.- 6. Social-Aspect Cases.- 5: Justification and the Gettier Problem.- 1. The Gettier Problem.- 2. Causal and Defeasibility Theories.- 3. Evidence and Truth.- 4. Some Counterexamples.- 6: Perceptual Knowledge and Physical Objects.- 1. Perception and the Given.- 2. Recognition and Perceptual Knowledge.- 3. Further Restrictions.- 4. Inferential and Non-Inferential.- 5. Abilities and Justified Belief.- 6. Direct Perception of Physical Objects.- 7: Foundations and Coherence.- 1. Experience and the Coherence Theory.- 2. The Nature of Coherence.- 3. Circularity and Coherence.- 4. Reliability and Coherence.- 8: Skepticism and Rationality.- 1. Knowledge and Certainty.- 2. Dire-Possibility Arguments.- 3. The Problem of the Criterion.- 4. Internalism vs. Externalism.- 5. Rationality and Justification.- Select Bibliography.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.