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The Basis of Debasing Scepticism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This paper purports to provide a fresh cashing out of Debasing Scepticism: the type of Scepticism put on the map in a recent article by Jonathan Schaffer, with a view to demonstrating that the Debasing Sceptic’s argument is not so easily dismissed as ...
Cunningham, Joe
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Skepticism Motivated: On the Skeptical Import of Motivated Reasoning [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Empirical work on motivated reasoning suggests that our judgments are influenced to a surprising extent by our wants, desires and preferences (Kahan 2016; Lord, Ross, and Lepper 1979; Molden and Higgins 2012; Taber and Lodge 2006). How should we evaluate
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Radical Scepticism and the Epistemology of Confusion [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The lack of knowledge—as Timothy Williamson (2000) famously maintains—is ignorance. Radical sceptical arguments, at least in the tradition of Descartes, threaten universal ignorance.
Carter, J. Adam
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The many ways of the basing relation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
A subject S's belief that Q is well-grounded if and only if it is based on a reason of S that gives S propositional justification for Q. Depending on the nature of S's reason, the process whereby S bases her belief that Q on it can vary. If S's reason is
Moretti, Luca, Piazza, Tommaso
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Disqualifying ‘Disqualifiers’ [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
In addition to the notion of defeat, do we need to expand the epistemological repertoire used in accounting for the context dependence of justification?
Madison, B. J. C.
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Input-output Relations in Early Epistemic Modality in Russian: a Corpus-based Approach* [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the 3d International Conference on Applied Social Science Research, 2016
The report discusses the acquisition of epistemic semantics and the basic means of its expression in the early stages of speech ontogenesis in L1. The mechanism of epistemic marking is also considered. The target-system and communicative factors, which contribute to this process are identified and corpus data of modern Russian speech is included.
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The Reliability of Memory: An Argument from the Armchair [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
The “problem of memory” in epistemology is concerned with whether and how we could have knowledge, or at least justification, for trusting our apparent memories. I defend an inductive solution—more precisely, an abductive solution—to the problem.
Hasan, Ali
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Epistemic Responsibilism and Moorean Dogmatism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In this paper, I defend Moorean Dogmatism against a novel objection raised by Adam Leite. Leite locates the defectiveness of the Moorean reasoning explicitly not in the failure of the Moorean argument to transmit warrant from its premises to its ...
Grajner, Martin
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Justified group belief is evidentially responsible group belief [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
What conditions must be satisfied if a group is to count as having a justified belief? Jennifer Lackey has recently argued that any adequate account of group justification must be sensitive to both the evidence actually possessed by enough of a group's ...
Silva, Paul
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Expert testimony, law and epistemic authority [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
© Society for Applied Philosophy, 2016 This article discusses the concept of epistemic authority in the context of English law relating to expert testimony.
Ward, Tony
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