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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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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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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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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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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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A Tale of Two Nortons [PDF]

, 2020
This paper considers Norton’s Material Theory of Induction. The material theory aims inter alia to neutralize Hume’s Problem of Induction.
Skeels, Patrick
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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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The philosophy of total evidence and its relevance for phylogenetic inference

Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia, 2005
The test of congruence under total evidence as used in systematics has been tied to a Popperian philosophy of science, but is here shown to be related to the coherence theory of truth in metaphysics and thus to coherentism in epistemology. Since the test
Olivier Rieppel
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The role and implications of mammalian cellular circadian entrainment

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
At their most fundamental level, mammalian circadian rhythms occur inside every individual cell. To tell the correct time, cells must align (or ‘entrain’) their circadian rhythm to the external environment. In this review, we highlight how cells entrain to the major circadian cues of light, feeding and temperature, and the implications this has for our
Priya Crosby
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Foundationalism and Coherentism From a Contextualist Point of View [PDF]

, 2003
Here is the picture classical foundationalism draws of empirical justification: Our system of beliefs is structured like a pyramid, it consists of a broad foundation of perceptual beliefs, i.e. beliefs reporting the contents of our perceptual states, and
Blome-Tillmann, Michael
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