Contrastivism and Skepticism

Recently, Jonathan Schaffer (and others) has defended a contrastivist analysis of knowledge. By appealing to his account, he has attempted to steer a path between skepticism and Moore-style antiskepticism: much like sensitivity theorists and contextualists, he offers significant concessions to, but...

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Published in:International journal for the study of skepticism
Main Author: Luper, Steven (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2012
In: International journal for the study of skepticism
Further subjects:B Skepticism contrastivism knowledge closure Schaffer
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
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Summary:Recently, Jonathan Schaffer (and others) has defended a contrastivist analysis of knowledge. By appealing to his account, he has attempted to steer a path between skepticism and Moore-style antiskepticism: much like sensitivity theorists and contextualists, he offers significant concessions to, but ultimately rejects, both. In this essay I suggest that in fact Schaffer ends up succumbing to skepticism.
ISSN:2210-5700
Contains:In: International journal for the study of skepticism
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/221057011X588019