A Critical Assessment of Sosa’s “Transcendental Argument” in Knowing Full Well

Abstract

In a provocative, yet scarcely discussed, argument at the end of Knowing Full Well, Ernest Sosa has attempted to determine what kind of evidence we possess in support of the belief that our cognitive capacities as human beings are reliable. According to Sosa, we can appeal to considerations of coherence to prove that 1 I wish to thank an anonymous referee for Manuscrito for valuable remarks about a previous version of this article. I would also like to thank my colleagues in the epistemology group at SADAF (San