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The sceptic's tools: circularity and infinite regress

(2011) PHILOSOPHICAL PAPERS. 40(3). p.359-369
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Important sceptical arguments by Sextus Empiricus, Hume and Boghossian (concerning disputes, induction, and relativism respectively) are based on circularities and infinite regresses. Yet, philosophers’ practice does not keep circularities and infinite regresses clearly apart. In this metaphilosophical paper I show how circularity and infinite regress arguments can be made explicit, and shed light on two powerful tools of the sceptic.
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scepticism, circularity, infinite regress, schema

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Wieland, Jan Willem. “The Sceptic’s Tools: Circularity and Infinite Regress.” PHILOSOPHICAL PAPERS, vol. 40, no. 3, 2011, pp. 359–69, doi:10.1080/05568641.2011.634246.
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Wieland, J. W. (2011). The sceptic’s tools: circularity and infinite regress. PHILOSOPHICAL PAPERS, 40(3), 359–369. https://doi.org/10.1080/05568641.2011.634246
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Wieland, Jan Willem. 2011. “The Sceptic’s Tools: Circularity and Infinite Regress.” PHILOSOPHICAL PAPERS 40 (3): 359–69. https://doi.org/10.1080/05568641.2011.634246.
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Wieland, Jan Willem. 2011. “The Sceptic’s Tools: Circularity and Infinite Regress.” PHILOSOPHICAL PAPERS 40 (3): 359–369. doi:10.1080/05568641.2011.634246.
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Wieland JW. The sceptic’s tools: circularity and infinite regress. PHILOSOPHICAL PAPERS. 2011;40(3):359–69.
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J. W. Wieland, “The sceptic’s tools: circularity and infinite regress,” PHILOSOPHICAL PAPERS, vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 359–369, 2011.
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  author       = {{Wieland, Jan Willem}},
  issn         = {{0556-8641}},
  journal      = {{PHILOSOPHICAL PAPERS}},
  keywords     = {{scepticism,circularity,infinite regress,schema}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{3}},
  pages        = {{359--369}},
  title        = {{The sceptic's tools: circularity and infinite regress}},
  url          = {{http://doi.org/10.1080/05568641.2011.634246}},
  volume       = {{40}},
  year         = {{2011}},
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