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63The ‘Default View’ of Perceptual Reasons and ‘Closure-Based’ Sceptical ArgumentsInternational Journal for the Study of Skepticism 7 (2): 114-135. 2017._ Source: _Volume 7, Issue 2, pp 114 - 135 It is a commonly accepted assumption in contemporary epistemology that we need to find a solution to ‘closure-based’ sceptical arguments and, hence, to the ‘scepticism or closure’ dilemma. In the present paper I argue that this is mistaken, since the closure principle does not, in fact, do real sceptical work. Rather, the decisive, scepticism-friendly moves are made before the closure principle is even brought into play. If we cannot avoid the sceptical…Read more
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34Kierkegaard contra Hegel on the'Absolute Paradox'Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 59 54-66. 2009.In the Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion Hegel propounds three inter-related theses: (1) The radical continuity of religion and philosophy. (2) The view that philosophy renders in conceptual form the essence of what Christianity consists in and thus transcends the merely subjective vantage-point of faith. (3) Philosophy alone shows Christianity to be rational and necessary. Kierkegaard’s pseudonym, Johannes Climacus, attacks all three of these theses in Conculding Unscientific Postscript, a…Read more
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Wittgenstein and Kierkegaard on religious beliefIn Ulrich Arnswald (ed.), In Search of Meaning: Ludwig Wittgenstein on Ethics, Mysticism and Religion, Universitätsverlag Karlsruhe. 2009.
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76Review of Hans-Johann Glock & John Hyman (eds.), Wittgenstein and Analytic Philosophy: Essays for P.M.S. Hacker (review)Analysis. forthcoming.
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81Epistemological Disjunctivism by Duncan PritchardAnalysis 75 (4): 604-615. 2015.1. In this exciting and ambitious book, Duncan Pritchard defends a novel conception of perceptual epistemic grounds, which can both be factive and reflectively available to the agent. Pritchard calls this position the ‘holy grail’ of epistemology for its power to undercut two of contemporary epistemology’s most central problems: the epistemic internalism/externalism controversy and radical scepticism. While Pritchard’s book manages to make a convincing case for why one should accept epistemologi…Read more
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51The Illusion of DoubtOxford University Press UK. 2016.The Illusion of Doubt confronts one of the most important questions in philosophy and beyond: what can we know? The radical sceptic's answer is 'not very much' if we cannot prove that we are not subject to deception. For centuries philosophers have been impressed by the radical sceptic's move, but this book shows that the radical sceptical problem turns out to be an illusion created by a mistaken picture of our evidential situation. This means that we don't need to answer the radical sceptical p…Read more
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25Meaning and Conversational Impropriety in Sceptical ContextsMetaphilosophy 47 (3): 431-448. 2016.According to “disjunctivist neo-Mooreanism”—a position Duncan Pritchard develops in a recent book—it is possible to know the denials of radical sceptical hypotheses, even though it is conversationally inappropriate to claim such knowledge. In a recent paper, on the other hand, Pritchard expounds an “überhinge” strategy, according to which one cannot know the denials of sceptical hypotheses, as “hinge propositions” are necessarily groundless. The present article argues that neither strategy is en…Read more
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50Art and the ‘Morality System’: The Case of Don GiovanniEuropean Journal of Philosophy 23 (4): 1025-1043. 2013.Mozart's great opera, Don Giovanni, poses a number of significant philosophical and aesthetic challenges, and yet it remains, for the most part, little discussed by contemporary philosophers. A notable exception to this is Bernard Williams's important paper, ‘Don Juan as an Idea’, which contains an illuminating discussion of Kierkegaard's ground-breaking interpretation of the opera, ‘The Immediate Erotic Stages or the Musical-Erotic’, in Either/Or. Kierkegaard's pseudonymous author's approach he…Read more
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