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Thinking Twice about Virtue and Vice: Philosophical Situationism and the Vicious Minds Hypothesis [PDF]
, 2017 This paper provides an empirical defense of credit theories of knowing against Mark Alfano’s challenges to them based on his theses of inferential cognitive situationism and of epistemic situationism.
Axtell, Guy
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Justifying conditionalization: Conditionalization maximizes expected epistemic utility [PDF]
, 2005 According to Bayesian epistemology, the epistemically rational agent updates her beliefs by conditionalization: that is, her posterior subjective probability after taking account of evidence X, p_{new}, is to be set equal to her prior conditional ...
Greaves, Hilary, Wallace, David
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Deference and Uniqueness [PDF]
, 2019 Deference principles are principles that describe when, and to what extent, it’s rational to defer to others. Recently, some authors have used such principles to argue for Evidential Uniqueness, the claim that for every batch of evidence, there’s a ...
Meacham, Christopher
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Delusion, Proper Function, and Justification [PDF]
, 2020 Among psychiatric conditions, delusions have received significant attention in the philosophical literature. This is partly due to the fact that many delusions are bizarre, and their contents interesting in and of themselves.
Crutchfield, Parker
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Belief, blame, and inquiry: a defense of doxastic wronging
Philosophical Studies, 2023 Z. Quanbeck
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Higher-Order Defeat Without Epistemic Dilemmas [PDF]
, 2018 Many epistemologists have endorsed a version of the view that rational belief is sensitive to higher-order defeat. That is to say, even a fully rational belief state can be defeated by misleading higher-order evidence, which indicates that the belief ...
Skipper, Mattias
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The Emotional Impact of Evil: Philosophical Reflections on Existential Problems [PDF]
, 2019 In The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoyevsky illustrates that encounters with evil do not solely impact agents’ beliefs about God (or God’s existence). Evil impacts people on an emotional level as well.
Colgrove, Nicholas
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A social solution to the puzzle of doxastic responsibility: a two-dimensional account of responsibility for belief [PDF]
, 2020 In virtue of what are we responsible for our beliefs? I argue that doxastic responsibility has a crucial social component: part of being responsible for our beliefs is being responsible to others.
Osborne, Robert Carry
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Light Out of Plenitude: Towards an Epistemology of Mystical Inclusivism [PDF]
, 2010 In this paper I argue that from the point of view of a theist, inclusivism with respect to the issue whether adherents of different religious traditions can have veridical experience of God (or Ultimate Reality) now, is more plausible than the Alstonian ...
Salamon, Janusz
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