Bryan Frances presents a highly original argument template for generating new kinds of radical scepticism, ones that hold even if all the clever anti-sceptical fixes defeat the traditional sceptic. Sharp, witty, and fun to read, Scepticism Comes Alive will be highly provocative for anyone interested in knowledge and its limits.

Frances investigates the questions, 'Under what conditions do we need to rule out these error theories in order to know things inconsistent with them?' and 'Can we rule them out?' Particular attention is paid to recent methods used to counter the traditional sceptic. Sharp, witty, and fun to read, Scepticism Comes Alive will be highly provocative for anyone interested in knowledge and its limits.

1. Introduction: When a Sceptical Hypothesis is Live
2. When Experts Make Mistakes
3. How Live Hypotheses Sabotage Knowledge
4. The First Live Sceptical Hypothesis
5. Additional Sceptical Hypotheses
6. The Sceptical Solution
7. Universal Scepticism
8. The Consistency of Scepticism and Knowledge
9. Epistemic Threats, Context, and our Anti-Sceptical Strategies
10. Disarming the Live Sceptical Threat
11. Do Live Sceptical Hypotheses Pose Real Threats?
12. Defeating the Live Sceptic Head-On
13. Concluding Reflections