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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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Evolutionary Approaches to Epistemic Justification [PDF]
Dialectica, 2011 What are the consequences of evolutionary theory for the epistemic standing of our beliefs? Evolutionary considerations can be used to either justify or debunk a variety of beliefs. This paper argues that evolutionary approaches to human cognition must at least allow for approximately reliable cognitive capacities.
Helen De Cruz
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Epistemic justification and epistemic luck [PDF]
Synthese, 2017 Among epistemologists, it is not uncommon to relate various forms of epistemic luck to the vexed debate between internalists and externalists. But there are many internalism/externalism debates in epistemology, and it is not always clear how these debates relate to each other.
Job de Grefte
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Epistemic feature of democracy: The role of expert in democratic decision making [PDF]
Filozofija i Društvo, 2020 In her book Democracy and Truth: The Conflict between Political and Epistemic Virtues, Snježana Prijić Samaržija advocates that a purely procedural justification which defines the authority and legitimacy of democracy only in relation to the ...
Janković Ivana
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Wohlrapp's concept of justification
Informal Logic, 2017 The first two sections of this paper jointly comprise an edited version of the commentary I presented in the panel discussion of Harald R. Wohlrapp, The concept of argument: A philosophical foundation at the OSSA 11 conference, May 2016.
Derek Allen
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Philosophies, 2022 The view that emotions can provide defeasible justification for evaluative beliefs is widespread in the emotion literature. Despite this, the question of whether epistemic emotions can provide defeasible justification for theoretical beliefs has been ...
Laura Silva
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Conservation of epistemic responsibility by external epistemic in point of view of Ayatollah Javadi Amoli [PDF]
حکمت اسرا, 2021 Epistemic duty issue is one of the most important subjects in epistemology. In contrast to the externalism approach, which emphasizes on epistemic duty and responsibility for justification of a belief, the internalism approach regarding epistemology is ...
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Kuhn and the Distinction from Discovery/Justification [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفه, 2020 In this paper, by reviewing the main components of Thomas Kuhn’s philosophy it will become evident that he is a critic on the distinction between the context of discovery/justification in the methodology of science. His reasoning consists of: 1.
Ahmad Ebadi, Mohammad Emdadi Masouleh
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The Logical Burdens of Proof. Assertion and Hypothesis [PDF]
, 2017 The paper proposes two logical analyses of (the norms of) justification. In a first, realist-minded case, truth is logically independent from justification and leads to a pragmatic logic LP including two epistemic and pragmatic operators, namely ...
Chiffi, Daniele, Schang, Fabien
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Epistemic Modeling with Justifications [PDF]
, 2017 Existing logical models do not fairly represent epistemic situations with fallible justifications, e.g., Russell's Prime Minister example, though such scenarios have long been at the center of epistemic studies. We introduce justification epistemic models, JEM, which can handle such scenarios.
Sergei Artëmov
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