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    Warfield's anti-skeptical argument commits him to content compatibilism

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    • 1.Warfield claims a priori knowledge of both premises of his anti-skeptical argument
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    • 2.Having a priori knowledge of externalist thought contents requires that privileged access is compatible with wide content
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    • 1.Warfield's argument requires only that we know *that* we have wide content thoughts, not *what* makes their content wide.
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    • 2.Privileged access to the existence of a thought-type is logically independent of access to the environmental conditions constituting its content.
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    • 3.Therefore, Warfield's a priori self-knowledge claim does not entail that wide content itself is directly accessible, leaving compatibilism unestablished.
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    • 1.McKinsey's paradox shows that combining a priori self-knowledge with content externalism entails a priori knowledge of contingent environmental facts.
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    • 2.Warfield's embrace of this combination thus saddles him with implausible armchair knowledge of the external world, not compatibilism.
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    • 3.The correct diagnosis is that one of the two premises in his anti-skeptical argument must be rejected rather than reconciled through compatibilism.
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    Thus Warfield’s attempt to defend the claim that he has a priori knowledge of both premises of his anti-skeptical argument commits him to a view that we will call content compatibilism, the view that having privileged access to the contents of one’s thoughts is consistent with some of those contents being externalist, or wide. Other proposals of anti-skeptical arguments of the form (F), such as those by Tymoczko and Brueckner, also commit their defenders to content compatibilism.
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