Limiting Skepticism

Vincent Fella Hendricks; John Symons

Limiting Skepticism

Department of Communication

Abstract

Skeptics argue that the acquisition of knowledge is impossible given the standing possibility of error. We present the limiting convergence strategy for responding to skepticism and discuss the relationship between conceivable error and an agent’s knowledge in the limit. We argue that the skeptic must demonstrate that agents are operating with a bad method or are in an epistemically cursed world. Such demonstration involves a significant step beyond conceivability and commits the skeptic to potentially convergent inquiry

Original language	English
Journal	Logos & Episteme. An International Journal of Epistemology
Pages (from-to)	211-224
Number of pages	13
ISSN	2069-0533
Publication status	Published - 30 Jun 2011

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