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Epistemological disjunctivism and easy knowledge

SynthÈse, 2015
Stewart Cohen argues that basic knowledge is problematic, as it implies that subjects can acquire knowledge or justified beliefs about certain matters in ways that are supposedly too easy. Cohen raises two versions of the problem of easy knowledge, one involving the principle of closure and the other track-record style bootstrapping reasoning.
Stuchlik, Joshua
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Easy Knowledge and Epistemic Circularity

2021
Abstract This chapter argues that the commonsense intuitionist particularist response to radical skepticism laid out in Chapters Six, Seven, and Eight does not fall prey to the Problem of Easy Knowledge, which can also be called the ‘Problem of Epistemic Circularity.’ The core concern here is that one can’t rationally rely on a belief ...
Bergmann Michael
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Why reliabilism does not permit easy knowledge

SynthÈse, 2012
Reliabilism furnishes an account of basic knowledge that circumvents the problem of the given. However, reliabilism and other epistemological theories that countenance basic knowledge have been criticized for permitting all-too-easy higher-level knowledge.
Kelly Becker
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Basic Knowledge and Easy Understanding

Acta Analytica, 2012
Reliabilism is a theory that countenances basic knowledge, that is, knowledge from a reliable source, without requiring that the agent knows the source is reliable. Critics (especially Cohen 2002) have argued that such theories generate all-too-easy, intuitively implausible cases of higher-order knowledge based on inference from basic knowledge.
Kelly Becker
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Why Basic Knowledge is Easy Knowledge

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2005
The problem of easy knowledge arises for theories that have what I call a “basic knowledge structure”. S has basic knowledge of P just in case S knows P prior to knowing that the cognitive source of S's knowing P is reliable.1 Our knowledge has a basic knowledge structure (BKS) just in case we have basic knowledge and we come to know our faculties are ...
Stewart Cohen
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Varieties of Easy Knowledge Inference: A Resolution

Acta Analytica, 2007
It has recently been argued that any epistemological theory that allows for what is called basic knowledge, viz., knowledge that an agent acquires from a certain source, even if he fails to know that the source is reliable, falls victim to what is known as the problem of easy knowledge. The idea is that for such theories bootstrapping and closure allow
Hamid Vahid, Vahid Hamid
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Easy Knowledge, Closure Failure, or Skepticism: A Trilemma

Metaphilosophy, 2016
AbstractThis article aims to provide a structural analysis of the problems related to the easy knowledge problem. The easy knowledge problem is well known. If we accept that we can have basic knowledge via a source without having any prior knowledge about the reliability or accuracy of this source, then we can acquire knowledge about the reliability or
Guido Melchior
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Sosa on easy knowledge and the problem of the criterion

Philosophical Studies, 2010
Sosa' s Reflective Knowledge (2009) is enlightening, penetrating, and far too rich to be engaged with in its entirety here. I have chosen to focus on the final chapter, in which Sosa draws upon various of the distinctions and doctrines from earlier chapters to address the Problem of Easy Knowledge and the Problem of the Criterion.
James Van Cleve
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Easy Knowledge

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2005
Peter J Markie
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