I want to thank Peter Baumann for the thoughtful and gracious reply (2025) to my paper (2025). At every point in that piece, Baumann’s commentary is charitable but fair in pressing important worries for and questions of my work. By... Read More ›Source| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
Benjamin W. McCraw’s article “A Reidian Transcendental Argument Against Skepticism” (2025) constitutes an original and thought-provoking contribution both to Reid scholarship and to the discussion of epistemic skepticism.[1] In the following I will make a few remarks about it, focusing on the discussion of skepticism. I start with a brief historical remark on Reid and Kant (§ 1) before I explain the anti-skeptical argument in some detail (§ 2). A discussion of the premises of the argu...| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective