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Why warrant transmits across epistemological disjunctivist Moorean-style arguments

Thomas Lockhart

pp. 287-319

Abstract

Epistemological disjunctivists (such as Duncan Pritchard and John McDowell) make appeal to Moorean-style anti-skeptical arguments. It is often held that one problem with using Moorean-style arguments in the context of a response to skepticism is that such arguments are subject to a kind of epistemic circularity. The specific kind of epistemic failure involved has come to be known as a failure of warrant transmission. It would likely pose a problem for the anti-skeptical ambitions of the epistemological disjunctivist if his version of the Moorean-style argument failed to transmit warrant; but no epistemological disjunctivist has offered an argument to show that this is not so. In this paper, I fill the gap by arguing that warrant transmits across epistemological disjunctivist Moorean-style arguments.

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Huneman Philippe, Kostić Daniel (2018) Mechanistic and topological explanations. Synthese 195 (1).

Pages: 287-319

DOI: 10.1007/s11229-016-1218-6

Full citation:

Lockhart Thomas (2018) „Why warrant transmits across epistemological disjunctivist Moorean-style arguments“. Synthese 195 (1), 287–319.