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    McGrath — Carmelics
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    Mathew McGrath is a contemporary analytic philosopher specializing in epistemology, with particular focus on knowledge, justification, and responses to skeptical challenges. He has contributed to debates surrounding epistemic closure, contextualism, and the conditions under which beliefs about the external world count as warranted. His work engages critically with the structure of anti-skeptical arguments and the limits of epistemic justification.

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    Analyzed the logical structure of anti-skeptical strategies and their epistemic commitments

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    Contributed to debates on epistemic closure and its role in skeptical arguments

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    Examined contextualist and invariantist approaches to knowledge attribution

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    Developed critiques of proposed justificatory routes to denying skeptical hypotheses

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    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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