DeRose On Lotteries

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-2020

Published In

International Journal For The Study Of Skepticism

Abstract

This article discusses Keith DeRose’s treatment of the lottery problem in Chapter 5 of his recent The Appearance of Ignorance. I agree with a lot of it but also raise some critical points and questions and make some friendly proposals. I discuss different ways to set up the problem, go into the difference (quite relevant here) between knowing and ending inquiry, propose to distinguish between two different kinds of lotteries, add to the defense of the idea that one can know lottery propositions, give a critical discussion of DeRose’s contextualist solution to the problem, and support his defense against an absurdity objection with additional arguments.

Keywords

knowledge, lottery problem, skepticism, ending inquiry, epistemic lotteries, DeRose

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