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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Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Brill
2016
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International journal for the study of skepticism
Jahr: 2016, Band: 6, Heft: 1, Seiten: 44-52 |
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Erkenntnistheorie
/ Annahme (Logik)
/ Widerlegung
/ Skeptizismus
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weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Knowledge
evidence
global sceptical argument
local sceptical argument
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Zusammenfassung: | 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 |
Enthält: | In: International journal for the study of skepticism
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/22105700-05011177 |