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Dretske on Self-Knowledge and Contrastive Focus: How to Understand Dretske’s Theory, and Why It Matters [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Dretske’s theory of self-knowledge is interesting but peculiar and can seem implausible. He denies that we can know by introspection that we have thoughts, feelings, and experiences.
Roche, Michael, Roche, William
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What do we do when we suspend judgement?

open access: yesPhilosophical Issues, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 253-270, October 2024.
Abstract According to a classical view, suspension of judgement is, like belief and disbelief, a cognitive state. However, as some authors (Crawford 2022; Lord 2020; McGrath 2021a, 2021b; Sosa 2019, 2021) have pointed out, to suspend judgement is also to perform a certain mental action.
Anne Meylan
wiley   +1 more source

Skepticism and Disagreement [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Though ancient Pyrrhonian skepticism is apparently based on disagreement, this aspect of skepticism has been widely neglected in contemporary discussion on skepticism.
Lammenranta, Markus
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The effort to be neutral

open access: yesThe Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 62, Issue 3, Page 348-357, September 2024.
Abstract My aim in this article is to elucidate the nature of a form of intellectual and practical neutrality that is not covered by existing accounts of suspension of judgment. After rejecting some inadequate characterizations of this attitude of neutrality, I provide a positive characterization of it: it is a successful effort to resist certain ...
Benoit Gaultier
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Taking Skepticism Seriously: How the Zhuang-Zi Can Inform Contemporary Epistemology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This paper explores a few of the ways that the Zhuang-Zi can inform contemporary analytic epistemology. I begin, in section 1, by briefly outlining and summarizing the case for my fictionalist interpretation of the text.
CHUNG, Julianne
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How to Define the Notion of Knowledge which Solves the Gettier Problem [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Our contention is that to solve the Gettier Problem, a notion of infallible knowledge involving the substantial truth theory is necessary. We assume that acts of sense experience have propositional content, and that atomic empirical propositions need the
Misiuna, Krystyna
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Philosophy and biography

open access: yesMetaphilosophy, Volume 55, Issue 3, Page 328-337, July 2024.
Abstract Does the biography of a philosopher have any relevance to assessing their philosophy? After considering and rejecting three distinct treatments of this question, a different answer is articulated here. Distinguishing between the content and approach of a philosophical text, this article argues that biography is relevant to assessing the ...
Paul O'Grady
wiley   +1 more source

La naturalidad del escepticismo

open access: yesPrincipia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2012
In this article I examine M. Williams’ antisceptical strategy of considering skepticism as an unnatural position philosophically charged, which for him implies that skepticism has nothing to do with our epistemic practices.
Jesús Antonio Coll Mármol
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Boundless Skepticism and the Five Modes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
There is a difference between the tasks of interpreting Sextus Empiricus and contesting his arguments. Usually, one does the latter relying on some version of the former. Though this seems obvious, it is easy to make mistakes in this endeavor.
Rocha, Allysson V. L.
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Naturalizing skepticism

open access: yesMetaphilosophy, Volume 55, Issue 3, Page 301-315, July 2024.
Abstract Naturalism, construed as the idea that philosophy should be continuous with science, is a highly influential view. Its consequences for epistemology, however, are rather odd. Many believe that naturalized epistemology allows eschewing traditional skeptical challenges.
Marc Jiménez‐Rolland
wiley   +1 more source

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