Abstract
I focus on a key argument for global external world scepticism resting on the underdetermination thesis: the argument according to which we cannot know any proposition about our physical environment because sense evidence for it equally justifies some sceptical alternative (e.g. the Cartesian demon conjecture). I contend that the underdetermination argument can go through only if the controversial thesis that conceivability is per se a source of evidence for metaphysical possibility is true. I also suggest a reason to doubt that conceivability is per se a source of evidence for metaphysical possibility, and thus to doubt the underdetermination argument.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 381-403 |
| Number of pages | 23 |
| Journal | Erkenntnis |
| Volume | 79 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Apr 2014 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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