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Perceptual Knowledge Derailed
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Perceptual Knowledge Derailed J. Schaffer1 | (1) | Department of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003, USA |
Abstract The tracking theory treats knowledge as counterfactual covariation of belief and truth through a sphere of possibilities. I argue that the tracking theory cannot respect perceptual knowledge, because perceptual belief covaries with truth through a discontinuous scatter of possibilities. Perceptual knowledge is subject to inner derailing: there is an inner hollow of perceptual incompetence through which the differences are too small to track. Perceptual knowledge is subject to outer derailing: there are outlying islands of perceptual competence that extend well past skeptical sinkholes.
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