The regress argument against Cartesian skepticism

Analysis 72 (4):668-673 (2012)
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Abstract

I argue that Cartesian skepticism about the external world leads to a vicious regress of skeptical attitudes, the only principled and unproblematic response to which requires refraining from taking the very first skeptical step.

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Jessica M. Wilson
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