Scepticism by a Thousand Cuts
Global sceptical arguments seek to undermine vast swathes of our putative knowledge by deploying hypotheses that posit massive deception or error. Local sceptical arguments seek to undermine just a small region of putative knowledge, using hypotheses that posit deception or error of a more mundane k...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2016
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International journal for the study of skepticism
Year: 2016, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 44-52 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Cognition theory
/ Assumption (Logic)
/ Refutation
/ Scepticism
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Further subjects: | B
Knowledge
evidence
global sceptical argument
local sceptical argument
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Summary: | Global sceptical arguments seek to undermine vast swathes of our putative knowledge by deploying hypotheses that posit massive deception or error. Local sceptical arguments seek to undermine just a small region of putative knowledge, using hypotheses that posit deception or error of a more mundane kind. Those epistemologists who have devised anti-sceptical strategies have tended to have global sceptical arguments firmly in their sights. I argue here that local sceptical arguments, while less dramatic, ultimately pose just as serious a challenge to our epistemic self-image and that some prominent anti-sceptical strategies are very poorly placed to meet it. |
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ISSN: | 2210-5700 |
Contains: | In: International journal for the study of skepticism
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/22105700-05011177 |