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The logic of epistemic justification. [PDF]
Synthese, 2018 Theories of epistemic justification are commonly assessed by exploring their predictions about particular hypothetical cases-predictions as to whether justification is present or absent in this or that case. With a few exceptions, it is much less common for theories of epistemic justification to be assessed by exploring their predictions about logical ...
Smith M.
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Graded epistemic justification. [PDF]
Philos Stud, 2021 AbstractThe adjective ‘is justified’ has all the hallmarks of a gradable adjective. But the relationship between gradable uses and straightforward predications of the form ‘x is justified’ has been underexplored by epistemologists. In this paper we undertake to do some ground clearing as a prelude to better understanding this relationship.
Hawthorne J, Logins A.
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EPISTEMIC INTERNALISM AND TESTIMONIAL JUSTIFICATION [PDF]
Episteme, 2018 ABSTRACTAccording to epistemic internalists, facts about justification supervene upon one's internal reasons for believing certain propositions. Epistemic externalists, on the other hand, deny this. More specifically, externalists think that the supervenience base of justification isn't exhausted by one's internal reasons for believing certain ...
Egeland, Jonathan
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Epistemic Justification, Rights, and Permissibility [PDF]
Logos & Episteme, 2012 Can we understand epistemic justification in terms of epistemic rights? In this paper, we consider two arguments for the claim that we cannot and in doing so, we provide two arguments for the claim that we can. First, if, as many think, William James is right that the epistemic aim is to believe all true propositions and not to believe any false ...
Booth, A.R., Peels, H.D.
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Pandemic or “Plandemic”?: The Mediating Role of Epistemic Justification Strategies in the Relationship Between COVID‐19 Conspiracy Beliefs and COVID‐19 Vaccine Conspiracy Beliefs [PDF]
Brain and BehaviorBackground In today's post‐truth times, where personal feelings and beliefs have become increasingly important, determining what is accurate knowledge has become an important skill.
Ali Gökalp +7 more
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The priority of Propositional Justification [PDF]
Estudios de Filosofía, 2019 Turri argues against what he calls an “orthodox” view of the relationship between propositional and doxastic justification, according to which (Basis) it is sufficient for S to be doxastically justified in believing p that p is propositionally justified ...
Erhan Demircioglu
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The Deficits of Scientific Scepticism: Revisiting the Higher Values of Contextualistic Pluralism in Justification of Truth and Knowledge Claims [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2023 Scientific scepticism, fundamentally, questions the veracity and epistemic value of claims not supported by scientific evidence. Motivated by the assumption that only the empirical investigation of reality leads to the truth, the scientific sceptics ...
Anthony Etuk
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The epistemology of democracy: The epistemic virtues of democracy [PDF]
Filozofija i Društvo, 2020 The new and vibrant field of the epistemology of democracy, or the inquiry about the epistemic justification of democracy as a social system of procedures, institutions, and practices, as a cross-disciplinary endeavour, necessarily encounters ...
Prijić-Samaržija Snježana
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Deliberative epistemic instrumentalism, or something near enough [PDF]
Filozofija i Društvo, 2020 In her book Democracy and Truth: The Conflict between Political and Epistemic Virtues, Snježana Prijić Samaržija advocates a stance that not only political, but also epistemic values are necessary for justification of democracy.
Mladenović Ivan
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Journal of Modern Philosophy, 2022 Philosophical orthodoxy holds that Thomas Reid is an externalist concerning epistemic justification, characterizing Reid as holding the key to an externalist response to internalism. These externalist accounts of Reid, however, have neglected his work on
Robert Weston Siscoe
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