Schaffer's Demon

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 94 (4):552-559 (2013)
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Abstract

Jonathan Schaffer (2010) has summoned a new sort of demon – which he calls the debasing demon – that apparently threatens all of our purported knowledge. We show that any debasing skeptical argument must attack the justification condition and can do so only if a plausible thesis about justification is false.

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