Undercutting Defeat and Edgington's Burglar

In Lee Walters John Hawthorne (ed.), Conditionals, Probability & Paradox: themes from the Philosophy of Dorothy Edgington (forthcoming)
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Abstract

This paper does four things. First it lays out an orthodox position on reasons and defeaters. Then it argues that the position just laid out is mistaken about “undercutting” defeaters. Then the paper explains an unpublished thought experiment by Dorothy Edgington. And then it uses that thought experiment to motivate a new approach to undercutting defeaters.

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Scott Sturgeon
University of Birmingham

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The skeptic and the dogmatist.James Pryor - 2000 - Noûs 34 (4):517–549.
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