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Year: 2015

Pages: 3677-3693

Series: Synthese

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Rodrigo Borges, "On synchronic dogmatism", Synthese 192 (11), 2015, pp. 3677-3693.

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Saul Kripke (Philosophical troubles, 2011) argued that the requirement that knowledge eliminate all possibilities of error leads to dogmatism (i.e., the view that, if one knows that p, then one may rationally decide now to disregard any future evidence against p one may encounter). According to this view, the dogmatism puzzle arises because of a requirement on knowledge that is too strong. The paper argues that dogmatism can be avoided even if we hold on to the strong requirement on knowledge. I show how the argument for dogmatism can be blocked and I argue that the only other approach to the puzzle in the literature is mistaken.

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Publication details

Year: 2015

Pages: 3677-3693

Series: Synthese

Full citation:

Rodrigo Borges, "On synchronic dogmatism", Synthese 192 (11), 2015, pp. 3677-3693.