Penelope Maddy received her BA in Mathematics from UC Berkeley and her PhD from Princeton. Since then, she has held positions at the University of Notre Dame, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and since 1987 at the University of California at Irvine. Since 1998, her appointment has been in Irvine's Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, of which she was the founding chair. She is the author of Realism in Mathematics, Naturalism in Mathematics (Lakatos Award 2002), Second Philosophy, Defending the Axioms, and The Logical Must.

• Preface Introduction Part I: The Dream Argument1. Descartes on dreaming 2. Stroud on dreaming 3. Stroud vs. Austin Part II: The Argument from Illusion1. The argument 2. Shortcomings of the argument 3. Why is the argument so appealing? 4. From the argument to skepticism 5. Back to dreaming Part III: The Cure and Beyond 1. Moore 2. Wittgenstein 3. Beyond Appendix A: The infinite regress of justifications Appendix B: The closure argument Bibliography Index

To write a book for non-philosophers about what it is exactly that philosophers do, is by no means easy. Still, Maddy has succeeded very well with this book. It is very well written and not at all difficult to understand for a non-philosophical audience. It is an invitation to the reader to delve deeper into the fascinating world of philosophy and metaphilosophy.

Penelope Maddy received her BA in Mathematics from UC Berkeley and her PhD from Princeton. Since then, she has held positions at the University of Notre Dame, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and since 1987 at the University of California at Irvine. Since 1998, her appointment has been in Irvine's Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, of which she was the founding chair. She is the author of Realism in Mathematics, Naturalism in Mathematics (Lakatos Award 2002), Second Philosophy, Defending the Axioms, and The Logical Must.

• Preface Introduction Part I: The Dream Argument1. Descartes on dreaming 2. Stroud on dreaming 3. Stroud vs. Austin Part II: The Argument from Illusion1. The argument 2. Shortcomings of the argument 3. Why is the argument so appealing? 4. From the argument to skepticism 5. Back to dreaming Part III: The Cure and Beyond 1. Moore 2. Wittgenstein 3. Beyond Appendix A: The infinite regress of justifications Appendix B: The closure argument Bibliography Index

To write a book for non-philosophers about what it is exactly that philosophers do, is by no means easy. Still, Maddy has succeeded very well with this book. It is very well written and not at all difficult to understand for a non-philosophical audience. It is an invitation to the reader to delve deeper into the fascinating world of philosophy and metaphilosophy.

Penelope Maddy received her BA in Mathematics from UC Berkeley and her PhD from Princeton. Since then, she has held positions at the University of Notre Dame, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and since 1987 at the University of California at Irvine. Since 1998, her appointment has been in Irvine's Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, of which she was the founding chair. She is the author of Realism in Mathematics, Naturalism in Mathematics (Lakatos Award 2002), Second Philosophy, Defending the Axioms, and The Logical Must.

• Preface Introduction Part I: The Dream Argument1. Descartes on dreaming 2. Stroud on dreaming 3. Stroud vs. Austin Part II: The Argument from Illusion1. The argument 2. Shortcomings of the argument 3. Why is the argument so appealing? 4. From the argument to skepticism 5. Back to dreaming Part III: The Cure and Beyond 1. Moore 2. Wittgenstein 3. Beyond Appendix A: The infinite regress of justifications Appendix B: The closure argument Bibliography Index

To write a book for non-philosophers about what it is exactly that philosophers do, is by no means easy. Still, Maddy has succeeded very well with this book. It is very well written and not at all difficult to understand for a non-philosophical audience. It is an invitation to the reader to delve deeper into the fascinating world of philosophy and metaphilosophy.