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    Comesaña

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    Juan Comesaña is a contemporary analytic philosopher specializing in epistemology, with a focus on theories of justification, reliabilism, and the structure of epistemic reasons. He is a professor at the University of Arizona and has contributed influential work on how perceptual experience grounds belief and on the nature of evidence. His writing engages critically with both skeptical challenges and internalist/externalist debates in epistemology.

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    Developed accounts of evidentialist and reliabilist justification that bridge internalist and externalist frameworks

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    Contributed rigorous analyses of the relationship between evidence, reasons, and epistemic justification

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    Argued against certain formulations of the skeptical hypothesis as epistemically unsupported

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    Published influential papers on perceptual justification and the role of experience in belief formation

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    Engaged critically with contextualism and its limits in responding to skepticism

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    CP2 — the claim that we are not justified in denying the skeptical hypothesis — cannot be supported by appealing to the undetectability of skeptical scenarios alone

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