Abstract
This article analyses antiluck epistemology, and sensitivity-based and safety-based theories of knowledge in relation to skepticism. It suggests that the main motivation for sensitivity-based theories of knowledge is that they seem to offer a very neat resolution of at least one form of the skeptical problem. The problem with the use of sensitivity-based theories in responding to radical skepticism is that the closure principle is highly intuitive, intuitive that many feel that rejecting closure is too costly a price to pay for a resolution of the skeptical challenge.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | The Oxford Handbook of Skepticism |
| Editors | John Greco |
| Place of Publication | Oxford |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 1-22 |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780199892020 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780195183214 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2 Sept 2009 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Antiluck epistemology
- Closure principle
- Skepticism
- Theories of knowledge
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