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The Appearance of Skepticism: Possibility, Conceivability and Infinite Ascent
Canadian Journal of Philosophy 51 (2):94-107 (2021)
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The paper articulates a novel strategy against external world skepticism. It shows that a modal assumption of the skeptical argument cannot be justified.Author's Profile
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Epistemic Angst: Radical Skepticism and the Groundlessness of Our Believing.Duncan Pritchard - 2015 - Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Is conceivability a guide to possibility?Stephen Yablo - 1993 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 53 (1):1-42.
Skepticism and Naturalism: Some Varieties.Peter Frederick Strawson - 1985 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
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