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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Epistemic Value and What We Care About | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Epistemic Demands and What We Care About | |
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| Morality and Epistemic Demands | |
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| Bullshit | |
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| Skepticism and What We Care About | |
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| Chapter 1: Further Reading | |
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| Skepticism and Some Contemporary Responses | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The First Stage of the Skeptical Attack: The Infinite Regress of Reasons | |
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| Pyrrhonism and the Regress | |
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| Responses to the Regress: Foundationalism versus Coherentism | |
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| The Second Stage of the Skeptical Attack: Descartes's Evil Genius and the Irrelevance of Evidence | |
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| The Evil Genius | |
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| Denial of Epistemic Closure | |
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| Reliabilism | |
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| Contextualism | |
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| Chapter 2: Further Reading | |
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| Mind and World: Metaphysical and Semantic Responses to Skepticism | |
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| The Third Stage of the Skeptical Attack: The Absolute Conception of Reality | |
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| O. K. Bouwsma and the Evil Genius | |
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| Putnam and the Brain-in-a-Vat | |
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| Skepticism, Self-Trust, and Conscientious Belief | |
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| Chapter 3: Further Reading | |
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| Trust and the Intellectual Virtues | |
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| Epistemic Self-Trust and the Virtues That Regulate It | |
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| Conscientious Self-Trust | |
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| Trust in Admiration | |
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| Epistemic Trust in Others and the Virtues of Epistemic Communities | |
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| Epistemic Egoism as an Ideal | |
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| The Incoherence of Epistemic Egoism | |
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| Virtues of Epistemic Communities | |
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| Irresolvable Epistemic Disagreement | |
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| Summary | |
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| Chapter 4: Further Reading | |
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| What Is Knowledge? | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Value Problem | |
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| Gettier | |
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| Credit Theories of Knowledge | |
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| Chapter 5: Further Reading | |
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| Epistemic Good and the Good Life | |
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| The Desirability of Truth | |
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| Understanding | |
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| The Intellect and the Highest Good | |
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| Chapter 6: Further Reading | |
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| Bibliography | |