Why Only Virtues Can Confer Epistemic Dispositions: The Occasionalist Demon

I will argue that, contrary to what happens with Schaffer’s debasing demon, that is not even able to threaten our knowledge of the external world, there is a demon —the occasionalist demon— that plays epistemic havoc merely by being possible. The occasionalist demon argues for an antirealist view o...

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Main Author: Modesto Gómez-Alonso
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Disputatio Editions-IAR 2017-12-01
Series:Disputatio
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Online Access:https://studiahumanitatis.eu/ojs/index.php/disputatio/article/view/278