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Ideas of Duncan Pritchard, by Text

[British, fl. 2005, University of Sterling, then Professor at the University of Edinburgh.]

2012	Epistemological Disjunctivism

Intro

p.2

19495

Epistemic externalism struggles to capture the idea of epistemic responsibility

Intro

p.3

19496

Disjunctivism says perceptual justification must be both factual and known by the agent

1.§4

p.23

19497

Metaphysical disjunctivism says normal perceptions and hallucinations are different experiences

1.§6

p.36

19498

Epistemic internalism usually says justification must be accessible by reflection

2.§3

p.74

19499

We can have evidence for seeing a zebra, but no evidence for what is entailed by that

2.§3

p.76

19500

Favouring: an entailment will give better support for the first belief than reason to deny the second

2.§5

p.85

19501

We assess error against background knowledge, but that is just what radical scepticism challenges

2.§6

p.89

19502

Maybe knowledge just needs relevant discriminations among contrasting cases

2.n2

p.101

19503

An improbable lottery win can occur in a nearby possible world

3.§2

p.114

19505

Moore begs the question, or just offers another view, or uses 'know' wrongly [PG]

3.§2

p.114

19504

My modus ponens might be your modus tollens

3.§3

p.119

19506

Externalism is better than internalism in dealing with radical scepticism

3.§5

p.126

19507

Radical scepticism is merely raised, and is not a response to worrying evidence