Timothy H. Pickavance

In Defence of ‘Partially Clad’ Bare Particulars

In a recent article in this journal, Richard Brian Davis argues that ‘bare particulars [as defended by J. P. Moreland] face several serious shortcomings’[2003: 547]. I argue that Daviss two principal criticisms fall flat.

Skeptics Can Win (But Almost Never Will)

Abstract I defend the radical claim that there are only two solutions to what Chisholm calls ‘The Problem of the Criterion’: methodological skepticism and a view which I would like to call ‘particularism’, if the label were not already taken. Finally, I consider how this result bears on a recent critique of skepticism offered by Thomas Kelly (2005), and argue that it fails.