AAP2010 Abstracts
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| Title | Prof. |
| First Name | Stephen |
| Surname | Hetherington |
| Institution | UNSW |
| Title of Paper | Scepticism As An Intellectualist Mistake |
| Select a Stream | Epistemology |
| Abstract | How many philosophers have claimed to uncover a fundamental failing within sceptical thinking about knowledge? All too many; perhaps the quest is foolhardy. Maybe irrationally undaunted, though, this paper joins that fray — armed with the Rylean distinction between knowing-that and knowing-how. The paper’s conclusion is that sceptical thinking which would deny us knowledge relies upon a mistaken metaphysical presumption about the nature of knowledge and knowing. |
