ON LIVING THE TESTIMONIAL SCEPTIC'S LIFE: CAN TESTIMONIAL SCEPTICISM BE DISMISSED?

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Abstract

Within the contemporary epistemology of testimony, it is widely assumed that testimonial scepticism can be dismissed without engaging with possible reasons or arguments supporting the view. This assumption of dismissibility both underlies the debate between reductionist and non-reductionist views of testimony and is responsible for the neglect of testimonial scepticism within contemporary epistemology. This paper argues that even given liberal assumptions about what may constitute valid grounds for the dismissal of a sceptical view, the assumption that testimonial scepticism is dismissible should be rejected. For even if familiar sceptical positions and scepticism about testimonial justification can be dismissed on such grounds, scepticism about testimonial knowledge cannot.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)333-354
Number of pages22
JournalPhilosophical Quarterly
Volume74
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2024

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© 2023 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Scots Philosophical Association and the University of St Andrews.

Keywords

  • justification
  • knowledge
  • non-reductionism
  • reductionism
  • scepticism
  • testimony

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Philosophy

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