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Coherentism and Belief Fixation [PDF]

, 2015
Plantinga argues that cases involving ‘fixed’ beliefs refute the coherentist thesis that a belief’s belonging to a coherent set of beliefs suffices for its having justification (warrant). According to Plantinga, a belief cannot be justified if there is a
Krag, Erik
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Models, Brains, and Scientific Realism [PDF]

, 2006
Prediction Error Minimization theory (PEM) is one of the most promising attempts to model perception in current science of mind, and it has recently been advocated by some prominent philosophers as Andy Clark and Jakob Hohwy. Briefly, PEM maintains that “
Sterpetti, Fabio
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Agripa’s problem [PDF]

Ideas y Valores, 2005
Agrippa’s Problem: The purpose of this paper is to present the triple problem (trilemma) of Agrippa that questions the possibility of reaching an epistemological justification of empirical knowledge.
Mauricio Zuluaga
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Philosophical Wandering as a Mode of Philosophy in Cultural Life: From Diogenes of Sinope to Cornel West

Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, 2018
In this essay, I defend philosophical wandering not only as an approach to doing philosophy, but also as an important force to incite critical reflection in cultural life.
Eli Kramer
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A Critical Examination of BonJour’s, Haack’s, and Dancy’s Theory of Empirical Justification [PDF]

, 2015
In this paper, we shall describe and critically evaluate four contemporary theories which attempt to solve the problem of the infinite regress of reasons: BonJour's ‘impure’ coherentism, BonJour's foundationalism, Haack's ‘foundherentism’ and Dancy's ...
Christias, Dionysis
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The Possibility of Coherentism and the Stringency of Ceteris Paribus Conditions

Theoria, 2015
Schupbach (2008) puts forward a "possibility result" for Bayesian Coherentism, showing that there exist plausible sets of ceteris paribus conditions that imply that coherence is truth-conducive.
Jonah N. Schupbach
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Hermeneutical Perspective in Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis: An Overall View and Its Development Lines

Critical Hermeneutics, 2017
As Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis tend to reduce psychic suffering, they are always related to understanding and the search of meaning. For this reason, they are placed within the hermeneutical field, although the tension with the non-hermeneutical field ...
Giuseppe Martini
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«Cogito Ergo Sum» and Philofsophy of Action

Sententiae, 2015
Analytical philosophy opens new perspectives of studies in the history of philosophy. There are (1) generalized history of analytical interpretations of Cartesian principle cogito ergo sum and (2) analysis of Cartesianism through the prism of ...
Anna Laktionova
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Valosin‐containing protein counteracts ATP‐driven dissolution of FUS condensates through its ATPase activity in vitro

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Biomolecular condensates formed by fused in sarcoma (FUS) are dissolved by high ATP concentrations yet persist in cells. Using a reconstituted system, we demonstrate that valosin‐containing protein (VCP), an AAA+ ATPase, counteracts ATP‐driven dissolution of FUS condensates through its D2 ATPase activity.
Hitomi Kimura, Shin‐ichi Tate, Kyota Yasuda   +2 more
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THE PROBLEM OF LEGAL VALIDITY IN THE ANTI-METAPHYSICAL APPROACH (ALF ROSS’S CONCEPTION)

RUDN Journal of Law, 2017
The article analyzes the main approaches to the problem of the validity of law. As a result a num-ber of aspects of the phenomenon designated as “the validity of law” are distinguished: normative sig-nificance, social and (or) psychological efficiency ...
Natalia S Vasilyeva
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