Okasha, Samir (2022) Scepticism, Evidential Holism, and the Logic of Demonic Deception. [Preprint]
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Abstract
Sceptical arguments in epistemology typically employ sceptical hypotheses, which are rivals to our everyday beliefs so constructed that they �fit exactly the evidence on which those beliefs are based. There are two ways of using a sceptical hypothesis to undermine an everyday belief, giving rise to two distinct sorts of sceptical argument:
underdetermination-based and closure-based. However, both sorts of argument, as usually formulated in the literature, fall foul of evidential holism, for they ignore the crucial role of background beliefs. An analogy with the philosophy of science makes this point explicit. This
leads to the question of whether it is possible to \holism proof" the sceptical arguments, and if so how.
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| Subjects: | General Issues > Confirmation/Induction General Issues > Evidence General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism General Issues > Theory/Observation |
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| Depositing User: | Dr Samir Okasha | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 09 Jul 2022 12:18 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 09 Jul 2022 12:18 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 20869 | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Confirmation/Induction General Issues > Evidence General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism General Issues > Theory/Observation |
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| Date: | 9 July 2022 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/20869 |
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