@article {Schaffer:January 2003:0031-8116:31, author = "Schaffer J.", title = "Perceptual Knowledge Derailed", journal = "Philosophical Studies", volume = "112", year = "January 2003", abstract = "

The tracking theory treats knowledge as counterfactual covariation of belief and truth through a sphere of possibilities. I argue that the tracking theory cannot respect perceptual knowledge, because perceptual belief covaries with truth through a discontinuous scatter of possibilities. Perceptual knowledge is subject to inner derailing: there is an inner hollow of perceptual incompetence through which the differences are too small to track. Perceptual knowledge is subject to outer derailing: there are outlying islands of perceptual competence that extend well past skeptical sinkholes.

", pages = "31-45(15)", url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/phil/2003/00000112/00000001/05107445" }