naa a22 4500 510789013 CHVBK 20180411083312.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11406-012-9409-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11406-012-9409-y Harker David Department of Philosophy and Humanities, East Tennessee State, 37614, Johnson City, TN, USA aut Discussion Note: McCain on Weak Predictivism and External World Scepticism [Elektronische Daten] [David Harker] In a recent paper McCain (2012) argues that weak predictivism creates an important challenge for external world scepticism. McCain regards weak predictivism as uncontroversial and assumes the thesis within his argument. There is a sense in which the predictivist literature supports his conviction that weak predictivism is uncontroversial. This absence of controversy, however, is a product of significant plasticity within the thesis, which renders McCain's argument worryingly vague. For McCain's argument to work he either needs a stronger version of weak predictivism than has been defended within the literature, or must commit to a more precise formulation of the thesis and argue that weak predictivism, so understood, creates the challenge to scepticism that he hopes to achieve. The difficulty with the former is that weak predictivism is not uncontroversial in the respect that McCain's argument would require. I consider the prospects of saving McCain's argument by committing to a particular version of weak predictivism, but find them unpromising for several reasons. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2012 External world scepticism nationallicence Weak predictivism nationallicence Kevin McCain nationallicence Cartesian demon nationallicence Philosophia Springer Netherlands 41/1(2013-03-01), 195-202 0048-3893 41:1<195 2013 41 11406 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-012-9409-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-012-9409-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Harker David Department of Philosophy and Humanities, East Tennessee State, 37614, Johnson City, TN, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Philosophia Springer Netherlands 41/1(2013-03-01), 195-202 0048-3893 41:1<195 2013 41 11406 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer