Are Evolutionary Debunking Arguments Self-Debunking?

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Christos Kyriacou
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[1] University of Cyprus,Department of Classics and Philosophy
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Philosophia | 2016年 / 44卷
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Evolutionary debunking arguments; Epistemic facts; Self-debunking; The Milvian bridge principle;
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I argue that, at least on the assumption that if there are epistemic facts they are irreducible, the evolutionary debunking maneuver is prima facie self-debunking because it seems to debunk a certain class of facts, namely, epistemic facts that prima facie it needs to rely on in order to launch its debunking arguments. I then appeal to two recent reconstructions of the evolutionary debunking maneuver (Kahane (2011), Griffiths and Wilkins (2015)) and found them wanting. Along the way I set aside two ways (one envisaged, the other by Sterpetti (2015)) to avoid the self-debunking problem that I find unpromising. I conclude that the evolutionary debunking maneuver needs to clarify the meta-epistemological commitments upon which it is supposed to operate.
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页码:1351 / 1366
页数:15
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