Possible Worlds of Doubt |
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Authors: | Ron Wilburn |
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Institution: | (1) Dept. of Philosophy, University of Nevada, Box 455028, Las Vegas, NV 89154-5028, USA |
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Abstract: | A prominent contemporary anti-skeptical strategy, most famously articulated by Keith DeRose, aims to cage the skeptic′s doubts
by contextualizing subjunctive conditional accounts of knowledge through a conversational rule of sensitivity. This strategy,
I argue, courts charges of circularity by selectively invoking heavy counterfactual machinery. The reason: such invocation
threatens to utilize a metric for modal comparison that is implicitly informed by judgments of epistemic sameness. This gives
us reason to fear that said modal metric is selectively cherry-picked in advance to support the very anti-skeptical conclusion
for which the contextualist longs. |
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