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Global Scepticism, Underdetermination and Metaphysical Possibility

  • Luca Moretti

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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 languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)381-403
Number of pages23
JournalErkenntnis
Volume79
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Apr 2014
Externally publishedYes

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