Memory is ordinarily taken to be one of the most fundamental sources of knowledge.However,memory sceptics argue that memory is unable to provide us with knowledge about the past.In the existing literature,there are two most discussed forms of memory sceptical arguments,namely,the argument from memory reliability and the argument from underdetermination.Correspondingly,the two most representative anti-sceptical proposals nowa-days attempt to disarm the two sceptical arguments by employing explanationism and disjunctivism respectively.This paper will first illustrate their defects:The explanationist response fails to explain why the common-sense ex-planation is preferable.Besides,it succumbs to the petitio principii fallacy.The disjunctivist response fails to estab-lish that memorial experiences are factive in paradigmatic cases.After that,a novel solution will be proposed,ac-cording to which memory sceptical arguments are self-hollowing,viz,their conclusions deprive their premises of the foundation of plausibility.
memoryscepticismexplanationismdisjunctivismthe self-hollowing problem
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