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- Title
The significance of skepticism.
- Authors
Madigan, Taylor
- Abstract
There is a recurrent sort of skeptical character in philosophical debates who believes that some social practice must be abolished because it involves a false presupposition about how things 'really' are. I examine this style of skeptical argument, using the moral responsibility skeptic as my main illustration. I excavate two unstated and un‐argued for premises that it requires (which I call Undistorted Truth and Privileged Conception). This exposes the full extent of the argumentative burdens that such a skeptic must discharge. I aim to make progress by offering skeptics and anti‐skeptics alike a way forward: the skeptic is provided a clear agenda, while the anti‐skeptic is provided a diagnostic tool to assess this style of skeptical arguments at key junctures.
- Subjects
SKEPTICISM; RESPONSIBILITY; ARGUMENT
- Publication
Ratio, 2024, Vol 37, Issue 1, p26
- ISSN
0034-0006
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/rati.12385