Abstract
I examine the conditions which hypotheses must satisfy if they are to be used to raise significant sceptical challenges. I argue that sceptical hypotheses do not have to be logically, metaphysically or epistemically possible: they need only to depict scenarios subjectively indistinguishable from the actual world and to show how subjects can believe what they do while not having knowledge. I also argue that sceptical challenges can be raised against a priori beliefs, even if those beliefs are necessarily true. I hope to broaden our conception of the legitimate kinds of sceptical challenges which can be raised.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 449-470 |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| Journal | Philosophical Quarterly |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue number | 240 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jul 2010 |
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