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Hegel's philosophy aims at responding to the questions raised by modern scepticism concerning the accessibility of the external world, of other minds, and of one's own mind. A key-role in Hegel's argumentative strategy against modern scepticism is played
Testa, Italo
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Propositional Justification and Infinitism [PDF]
This essay presents the chief reasons for making a distinction between propositional and doxastic justification and, also, points out two things: (1) no theory of propositional justification implies a theory of doxastic justification; (2) infinitism is ...
Flores, Tito
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Certainty and Normativity from a Phenomenological Point of View [PDF]
In this Dissertation I argue on phenomenological grounds that our cognition is so structured that its aim is to possess absolutely certain knowledge. In Chapter I I clarify the notion of absolute certainty and discuss an argument to the effect that it is
Zanetti, Luca <1989>
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Dispositional Essentialism and Ontic Structural Realism - a hybrid view [PDF]
Dispositional Essentialism and Ontic Structural Realism aim to account for modality. Dispositional Essentialism takes properties to account for laws. In particular, it takes determinate properties to account for laws of nature (Bird, 2007), which are ...
GODFREY, JULIE,MARY
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Scepticism and Metaphilosophy [PDF]
Scepticism, taken as a challenge to the possibility of justifying knowledge claims in general, has a history perhaps as long and varied as attempts to construct positive theories of knowledge.
Smith, Derek Danny
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When Clio meets the Titans : rethinking state-historian relations in Indonesia and the Philippines
Riding the waves of decolonisation characteristic of postcolonial decades, the governments in Indonesia and the Philippines sponsored in the 1970s their respective history-writing projects: Sejarah Nasional Indonesia (SNI) and the Tadhana Project. One
Curaming, Rommel A.
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What Makes a Belief Warranted? A Pragmatist’s Answer [PDF]
Philosophical theories of warrant and justification are thought to answer the question of what makes some beliefs better to belief than others. Traditionally, philosophers have tried to find general qualities that beliefs share to get at the nature of ...
Herrine, Luke
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Phenomenal Conservatism Relocates the Trilemma: A PIE Response [PDF]
Michael Huemer’s phenomenal conservatism claims to defeat Agrippa’s Trilemma by grounding justification in phenomenologically given seemings rather than propositional reasons.
Gage, Lucas
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'How warped the mirrors': postmodernism and historiography [PDF]
Postmodernism, though it may be described in many ways, may be thought essentially to be captured by Lyotard's phrase, 'incredulity towards metanarratives'.
Olson, Ryan Scott
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