Birkbeck Philosophy Society - Summer Term Talk Series: Professor Ken Gemes (Birkbeck)
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Professor Ken Gemes (Birkbeck)
'Scepticism about Knowledge Facts and Scepticism Regarding Knowledge of the External World'
Description: This paper argues that we should reject the claim that there are knowledge facts on the grounds of inference to the best explanation. It then shows that scepticism about the external world entails there are knowledge facts, and, hence, concludes that if we reject the existence of knowledge facts we should reject external world scepticism.