Pluralistic skepticism: Advertisement for speech act pluralism

Philosophical Perspectives 19 (1):15–39 (2005)
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Abstract

Even though the lines of thought that support skepticism are extremely compelling, we're inclined to look for ways of blocking them because it appears to be an impossible view to accept, both for intellectual and practical reasons. One goal of this paper is to show that when skepticism is packaged right, it has few problematic implications (or at least fewer than is often assumed). It is, for example, compatible with all the following claims (when these are correctly interpreted)

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Herman Cappelen
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