Logos & Episteme

Volume 5, Issue 3, 2014

Moti Mizrahi
Pages 343-350

Phenomenal Conservatism and Self-defeat Arguments: A Reply to Huemer

In this paper, I respond to Michael Huemer‘s reply to my objection against Phenomenal Conservatism (PC). I have argued that Huemer‘s Self-defeat Argument for PC does not favor PC over competing theories of basic propositional justification, since analogous self-defeat arguments can be constructed for competing theories. Huemer responds that such analogous self-defeat arguments are unsound. In this paper, I argue that Huemer‘s reply does not save his Self-defeat Argument for PC from my original objection.