Epistemological skepticism(s) and rational self-control *.

From: The Monist | Date: July 1, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

[W]e assent to our faculties, and employ our mason only because we cannot help it. Philosophy wou'd render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.

--David Hume, An Abstract (1)

Nature is always too strong for principle.

--David Hume, Enquiry (2)

In this paper I aim to do two things. First, I attempt to illustrate an interesting pattern of argument one can find in Hume's work. Next, I employ this Humean pattern of argument to show that IF there is a cogent and intuitive argument for any form of epistemological skepticism, which despite its ...

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