Who's Afraid of Epistemic Dilemmas?

Abstract

In Hughes (2019a) I argued that there can be epistemic dilemmas—situations in which one faces conflicting epistemic requirements, with the result that whatever one does, one is doomed to do wrong from the epistemic point of view. In this chapter I address an objection to the possibility of epistemic dilemmas. The objection maintains that dilemmism should only be accepted as a last resort, if all else fails. I look at several ways one might try to motivate this claim, and argue that none of them makes it plausible.

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