Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Mark Walker’s Outlines of Skeptical-Dogmatism argues that philosophers should be humbler: believing their preferred views, as they do, they are committed to representing themselves as vastly epistemically superior to colleagues who disagree with them. I argue to the contrary: belief in one’s preferred views is not obviously common, and is compatible with believing one is no more likely than one’s interlocutors to have discovered the truth. I invoke sensitivist models of belief to sketch how belief that p can be made coherent with belief that one is not likely to be correct about whether p.
Author: Roger Clarke
Institution: Queen's University Belfast
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4411378591