Sceptical Rationality

Analytic Philosophy 55 (1):222-238 (2014)
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It is widely assumed that it is rational to suspend one’s belief regarding a certain proposition only if one’s evidence is neutral regarding that proposition. In this paper I broaden this condition, and defend, on the basis of an improved ancient argument, that it is rational to suspend one’s belief even if the available evidence is not neutral – or even close to neutral.

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10.1111/phib.12044

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Jan Willem Wieland
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