ABSTRACT
Living with super-scepticism would be a matter of reaffirming the role that scepticism in general has played throughout the history of Western philosophy, as generator of intellectual discomfort and provoker of awkward situations for the mainstream practitioner. Super-scepticism comes into its own at such points; its insistence on the factor of difference keeping us aware of the gaps in, and limits to, authority. Living with super-scepticism means taking on board, therefore, a loose and fuzzy metaphysics with a particular affinity to recent developments in physics – and recognising the value of this. Physics is the site of some of the most interesting metaphysical speculations nowadays, and in its interdisciplinary, libertarian, anti-authoritarian, anti-totalizing, and pro-paradox way, super-scepticism is ideally placed to enter into dialogue with these. Super-scepticism is also well placed to contribute to the debate on 'endism' that has become such a feature of recent cultural enquiry.
