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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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2012
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International journal for the study of skepticism
Year: 2012, Volume: 2, Issue: 1, Pages: 51-58 |
Further subjects: | B
Skepticism
contrastivism
knowledge
closure
Schaffer
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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. |
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ISSN: | 2210-5700 |
Contains: | In: International journal for the study of skepticism
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/221057011X588019 |