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On Reflective Knowledge: replies to Battaly and Reed

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This article is a reply to Baron Reed and Heather Battaly, two critics in a book symposium on my Reflective Knowledge. The reply to Reed concerns the main content and structure of Descartes’s epistemology. The reply to Battaly concerns how best to deal with epistemic circularity.

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  • Descartes, R. (1984). The philosophical writings of Descartes (Vol. II) (J. Cottingham, R. Stoothoff, & D. Murdoch, Trans.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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    Ernest Sosa

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Sosa, E. On Reflective Knowledge: replies to Battaly and Reed. Synthese 188, 309–321 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-011-9920-x

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