Barry Stroud’s work has had a profound impact on a wide range of topics in contemporary philosophy. This volume contains contributions by students, colleagues, and well‐known interlocuters of Stroud on the main topics and themes in Stroud’s work. It is divided into four sections: “Hume,” “Skepticism and Knowledge,” “Meaning and Reason,” and “Subjectivism and Reality.” The introductory essay offers an overview of main themes of Stroud’s work, with an emphasis on Stroud’s broad interest in understanding and assessing the prospects for philosophical understanding as such. Most of the remaining co ... More

Barry Stroud’s work has had a profound impact on a wide range of topics in contemporary philosophy. This volume contains contributions by students, colleagues, and well‐known interlocuters of Stroud on the main topics and themes in Stroud’s work. It is divided into four sections: “Hume,” “Skepticism and Knowledge,” “Meaning and Reason,” and “Subjectivism and Reality.” The introductory essay offers an overview of main themes of Stroud’s work, with an emphasis on Stroud’s broad interest in understanding and assessing the prospects for philosophical understanding as such. Most of the remaining contributions are expositions and critical examinations of Stroud’s views on specific philosophical topics: his antiskeptical strategy, his nonreductionism about meaning, his treatment of metaphysics in The Quest for Reality, his opposition to metaphysical subjectivism about value, his criticism of the idea of colors as secondary qualities, his treatment of epistemic entitlement, his defense of a broadly Humean view of the explanation of action, his work on transcendental and circular reasoning, and his interpretation of Hume on personal identity. Other contributions attempt to extend some of his lines of thought to topics that he has not discussed in detail, such as contextualism about knowledge attributions and the metaphysics of time.