Naturalism and Skepticism According to Cavell, McDowell and Strawson

What relations hold between naturalism and scepticism, after Hume, in the work of three contemporary philosophers, three « new sceptics », who inherit ordinary language philosophy ? Is it natural to us to doubt our access to the world ? Does naturalism aim at allowing the rejection of the sceptical question, or the acknowledgment of the way scepticism infuses ordinary language ? In distinguishing different kinds of naturalism according to the concept of nature they appeal to and according to their position towards the threat of scepticism, the author is led to reconsider the ambiguities of contemporary references to Hume, and to shed light on an unexpected inheritance of Hume that appears in the Cavellian reading of the rule following paragraphs, in Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations.