The first of its kind, this project is a collection of critical and interpretive essays on George Santayanas seminal work in American philosophy, Scepticism and Animal Faith (1923), 100 years after its first edition. The reader will be guided through the intricacies of Scepticism and Animal Faith by expert scholars. This book is a companion to Scepticism and Animal Faith for both first-time readers and readers intimately familiar with this work. 

Martin Coleman is Director and Editor of the Santayana Edition. He is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Adjunct Associate Professor of American Studies at Indiana University Indianapolis.

Glenn Tiller is Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.  

1. Introduction; Martin Coleman and Glenn Tiller.- I. Scepticism and Animal Faith.- 2. Santayana: Philosopher for the Twenty-First Century; Herman J. Saatkamp Jr.- 3. The Last Sceptic: Santayana, Descartes, and the External World; Douglas McDermid.- 4. Laying Siege to the Truth: Santayanas Discourse on Method; Diana B. Heney.- 5. Scepticism, Anti-scepticism, and Santayanas Singularity; Daniel Pinkas.- 6. Knowledge as a Leap of Faith; Jessica Wahman.- 7. Animal Faith and Its Object; John J. Stuhr.- 8. Natural Knowledge and Transcendental Criticism inScepticism and Animal Faith; Paul Forster.- 9. Santayanas Naturalism at the Junction of Epistemology and Ontology; Ángel M. Faerna.- 10. Reconstruction from Ultimate Scepticism; Angus Kerr-Lawson.- II. Ontology and Spirit.-11. The Centrality of the Imagination inScepticism and Animal Faith; Richard Marc Rubin.- 12. Spiritual Exercises and Animal Faith; Martin A. Coleman.- 13. The Cries of Spirit: Santayana in Dialogue with Andrey Platonov; Matthew Caleb Flamm.- 14. Fumbling Towards the Animal in Animal Faith; Charles Padrón.- 15. A Tension at the Center of Santayanas Philosophy; Michael Hodges.- 16. Truth and Ontology; Glenn Tiller.- III. Philosophical Relations.- 17. On Gnats and Barnacles, or Some Similarities between Santayanas Idea of Change and Ancient Greek Thought; Andrés Tutor de Ureta.- 18. The Ideal of a Philosophic Redemption: Baruch Spinozas Place in Western Philosophy and in Santayanas Thought; Lydia Amir.- 19. G. Santayana (Scepticism and Animal Faith, 1923) and E. Husserl (Cartesianische Meditationen, 1929), Readers of R. Descartes; Daniel Moreno.- 20. Hermes as an Interpreter and the Guide to Hades: Re-reading The Letter of Lord Chandos with Reference to SantayanasScepticism and Animal Faith; Katarzyna Kremplewska.- 21. The Conservative Disposition in Santayanas Philosophy; Michael Brodrick.