The dogmatist, Moore's proof and transmission failure

Analysis 74 (3):382-389 (2014)
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Abstract

According to Jim Pryor’s dogmatism, if you have an experience as if P, you acquire immediate prima facie justification for believing P. Pryor contends that dogmatism validates Moore’s infamous proof of a material world. Against Pryor, I argue that if dogmatism is true, Moore’s proof turns out to be non-transmissive of justification according to one of the senses of non-transmissivity defined by Crispin Wright. This type of non-transmissivity doesn’t deprive dogmatism of its apparent antisceptical bite.

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Luca Moretti
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The skeptic and the dogmatist.James Pryor - 2000 - Noûs 34 (4):517–549.
What's wrong with Moore's argument?James Pryor - 2004 - Philosophical Issues 14 (1):349–378.
Proof of an external world.George Edward Moore - 1939 - Proceedings of the British Academy 25 (5):273--300.
(Anti-)sceptics simple and subtle: G. E. Moore and John McDowell.Crispin Wright - 2002 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 65 (2):330-348.

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