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6Cartesian skepticism and the inference to the best explanationIn Linda Alcoff (ed.), Epistemology: the big questions, Blackwell. pp. 352--9. 1998.
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35Skepticism and FoundationalismJournal of Philosophical Research 22 11-28. 1997.Michael WiIliams maintains that skepticism about the extemal worId is vitiated by a commitment to foundationalism and epistemological realism. (The latter is, approximately, the view that there is such a thing as knowledge of the extemal world in general, which the skeptic can take as a target). I argue that skepticism is not encumbered in the ways Williams supposes. What matters, first of all, is that we can’t perceive the difference between being in an ordinary environment and being in the sor…Read more
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4Evidence and Inquiry (review)Philosophical Review 104 (4): 621-623. 1995.For some time, it seemed that one had to choose between two sharply different theories of epistemic justification, foundationalism and coherentism. Foundationalists typically held that some beliefs were certain, and, hence, basic. Basic beliefs could impart justification to other, non-basic beliefs, but needed no such support themselves. Coherentists denied that there are any basic beliefs; on their view, all justified beliefs require support from other beliefs. The divide between foundationalis…Read more
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1Are there Counterexamples to the Closure PrincipleIn Roth Michael & Ross Glenn (eds.), Doubting: Contemporary Perspetcives on Scepticism, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 13-29. 1990.
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Department Of Philosophy
Alumnus
Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |