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Skepticism Disarmed

Canadian Journal of Philosophy 13 (1):107 - 114 (1983)

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  1. Skeptical Rearmament.Bredo C. Johnsen - 1985 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 15 (3):507 - 509.
    In ‘Skeptism Oisarmed,’ L.S. Carrier asserts the following:… any reasonable person would accept premise only on the ground that both p and q are propositions for which we can get the requisite evidence.Premise, actually a premise schema attributed to Peter Unger, is the following:If A both knows p and knows that p entails q, then A can come to know that q.I suggest, contrary to Carrier's assertion, that many reasonable people, including many philosophers, would regard as a necessary truth knowable (...)
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  • Unger's argument for skepticism revisited.Igor Douven & Diederik Olders - 2008 - Theoria 74 (3):239-250.
    Unger (1974/2000) presents an argument for skepticism that significantly differs from the more traditional arguments for skepticism. The argument is based on two premises, to wit, that knowledge would entitle the knower to absolute certainty, and that an attitude of absolute certainty is always inadmissible from an epistemic viewpoint. The present paper scrutinizes the arguments that Unger provides in support of these premises and shows that none of them is tenable. It thus concludes that Unger's argument for skepticism fails to (...)
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