Anti-Individualism, Content Preservation, and Discursive Justification

Author: Goldberg, Sanford C.1

Source: Noûs, Volume 41, Number 2, June 2007 , pp. 178-203(26)

Publisher: Blackwell Publishing

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Abstract:

Most explorations of the epistemic implications of Semantic Anti-Individualism (SAI) focus on issues of self-knowledge (first-person authority) and/or external-world skepticism. Less explored has been SAI's implications for the epistemology of reasoning. In this paper I argue that SAI has some nontrivial implications on this score. I bring these out by reflecting on a problem first raised by Boghossian (1992). Whereas Boghossian's main interest was in establishing the incompatibility of SAI and “the a priority of logical abilities” ( Boghossian 1992: 22), I argue that Boghossian's argument is better interpreted as pointing to SAI's implications for the nature of discursive justification.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0068.2007.00643.x

Affiliations: 1: University of Kentucky

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