Contrastivism and Skepticism

International Journal for the Study of Skepticism 2 (1):51-58 (2012)
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Abstract

Recently, Jonathan Schaffer has defended a contrastivist analysis of knowledge. By appealing to his account, he has attempted to steer a path between skepticism and Moore-style antiskepticism: much like sensitivity theorists and contextualists, he offers significant concessions to, but ultimately rejects, both. In this essay I suggest that in fact Schaffer ends up succumbing to skepticism

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Epistemic Contrastivism.Peter Baumann - 2017 - Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Defending Contrastivism.Martijn Blaauw - 2012 - International Journal for the Study of Skepticism 2 (1):59-64.

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