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date: 16 February 2019

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This article analyses antiluck epistemology, and sensitivity-based and safety-based theories of knowledge in relation to skepticism. It suggests that the main motivation for sensitivity-based theories of knowledge is that they seem to offer a very neat resolution of at least one form of the skeptical problem. The problem with the use of sensitivity-based theories in responding to radical skepticism is that the closure principle is highly intuitive, intuitive that many feel that rejecting closure is too costly a price to pay for a resolution of the skeptical challenge.

Keywords: antiluck epistemology, theories of knowledge, skepticism, closure principle

Duncan Pritchard

Duncan Pritchard is chair in Epistemology at the University of Edinburgh.

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