Global scepticism, underdetermination and metaphysical possibility

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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.
Lingua originaleInglese
pagine (da-a)381-403
Numero di pagine23
RivistaErkenntnis
Volume79
Numero di pubblicazione2
DOI
Stato di pubblicazionePubblicato - 2014

Keywords

  • global scepticism
  • metaphysical possibility
  • underdetermination

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