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340The exorcist's nightmare: A reply to Crispin WrightMind 101 (403): 543-552. 1992.Crispin Wright tried to refute classical 'Cartesian' skepticism contending that its core argument is extendible to a reductio ad absurdum (_Mind<D>, 100, 87-116, 1991). We show both that Wright is mistaken and that his mistakes are philosophically illuminating. Wright's 'best version' of skepticism turns on a concept of warranted belief. By his definition, many of our well-founded beliefs about the external world and mathematics would not be warranted. Wright's position worsens if we take 'warra…Read more
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12Tracking, closure, and inductive knowledgeIn Luper-Foy Steven (ed.), The Possibility of Knowledge: Nozick and His Critics, Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 197--215. 1987.
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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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Department Of Philosophy
Alumnus
Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |