TY - GEN
T1 - Multi-path vs. single-path replies to skepticism
AU - Wang, Wen fang
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany 2017.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - In order to reply to the contemporary skeptic’s argument for the conclusion that we don’t have any empirical knowledge about the external world, several authors have suggested different fallibilist theories of knowledge that reject the epistemic closure principle. Holliday [8], however, shows that almost all of them suffer from either the problem of containment or the problem of vacuous knowledge. Furthermore, Holliday [9] suggests that the fallibilist should allow a proposition to have multiple sets of relevant alternatives, each of which is sufficient while none is necessary, if all its members are eliminated, for knowing that proposition. Not completely satisfied with Holliday’s multi-path reply to the skeptic, the author suggests a new single-path relevant alternative theory of knowledge and argues that it can avoid both the problem of containment and the problem of vacuous knowledge while rejecting skepticism.
AB - In order to reply to the contemporary skeptic’s argument for the conclusion that we don’t have any empirical knowledge about the external world, several authors have suggested different fallibilist theories of knowledge that reject the epistemic closure principle. Holliday [8], however, shows that almost all of them suffer from either the problem of containment or the problem of vacuous knowledge. Furthermore, Holliday [9] suggests that the fallibilist should allow a proposition to have multiple sets of relevant alternatives, each of which is sufficient while none is necessary, if all its members are eliminated, for knowing that proposition. Not completely satisfied with Holliday’s multi-path reply to the skeptic, the author suggests a new single-path relevant alternative theory of knowledge and argues that it can avoid both the problem of containment and the problem of vacuous knowledge while rejecting skepticism.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-662-55665-8_5
DO - 10.1007/978-3-662-55665-8_5
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85029407966
SN - 9783319649993
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 65
EP - 78
BT - Business Process Management - 15th International Conference, BPM 2017, Proceedings
A2 - Seligman, Jeremy
A2 - Yamada, Tomoyuki
A2 - Baltag, Alexandru
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 15th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2017
Y2 - 10 September 2017 through 15 September 2017
ER -