Judgements, Expertise, and Counterfactuals

摘要

In The Philosophy of Philosophy (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007), Tim Williamson has offered a sophisticated account of thought experiments and of modal epistemology. More recently, he has also engaged in a variant of the so-called expertise defence' of traditional philosophical methodology. In this paper I argue that if Williamson's account of thought experiments and of modal epistemology is right, this seriously undermines his version of the expertise defence.