Disjunctivism and the Urgency of Scepticism

TY - JOUR

T1 - Disjunctivism and the Urgency of Scepticism

AU - Overgaard, Søren

N1 - Reprint af tidsskriftsartikel

PY - 2011/3

Y1 - 2011/3

N2 - This paper argues that McDowell is right to claim that disjunctivism has anti-sceptical implications. While the disjunctive conception of experience leaves unaffected the Cartesian sceptical challenge, it undermines another type of sceptical challenge. Moreover, the sceptical challenge against which disjunctivism militates has some philosophical urgency in that it threatens the very notion that perceptual experience can acquaint us with the world around us.

AB - This paper argues that McDowell is right to claim that disjunctivism has anti-sceptical implications. While the disjunctive conception of experience leaves unaffected the Cartesian sceptical challenge, it undermines another type of sceptical challenge. Moreover, the sceptical challenge against which disjunctivism militates has some philosophical urgency in that it threatens the very notion that perceptual experience can acquaint us with the world around us.

U2 - 10.1080/13869795.2011.544397

DO - 10.1080/13869795.2011.544397

M3 - Journal article

SN - 1386-9795

VL - 14

SP - 5

EP - 21

JO - Philosophical Explorations

JF - Philosophical Explorations

IS - 1

ER -