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HIGHER-ORDER DEFEAT WITHOUT EPISTEMIC DILEMMAS (pages 451-465)

Mattias SKIPPER ABSTRACT: Many epistemologists have endorsed a version of the view that rational belief is sensitive to higher-order defeat. That is to say, even a fully rational belief state can be defeated by (sufficiently strong) misleading higher-order evidence, which indicates that the belief state is irrational. In a recent paper, however, Maria Lasonen-Aarnio calls this view into doubt. Her …

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