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Epistemic Justification

2001
Abstract Modern disputes about what makes a belief epistemically justified or rational are flawed through failing to recognize that there are different kinds of justifications that are in different ways indicative that the belief is true.
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Justifications, Awareness and Epistemic Dynamics

2013
The paper introduces a new kind of models for the logic of proofs LP, the group justification models. While being an elaboration of Fitting models, the group justification models are a special case of the models of general awareness. Soundness and completeness results of LP with respect to the new semantics are established.
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Atheism and epistemic justification

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2014
In a recent article in this journal, Andrew Johnson seeks to defend the “New Atheism” against several objections. We provide a philosophical assessment of his defense of contemporary atheistic arguments that are said to amount to bifurcation fallacies.
J. Angelo Corlett, Josh Cangelosi
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The deontological conception of epistemic justification: a reassessment

Synthese, 2011
This paper undertakes two projects: Firstly, it offers a new account of the so-called deontological conception of epistemic justification (DCEJ). Secondly, it brings out the basic weaknesses of DCEJ, thus accounted for. It concludes that strong reasons speak against its acceptance.
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Epistemic Justification Revisited

Journal of Philosophical Research, 2016
In his Beyond Justification, Bill Alston argued that there is no single property picked out by ‘epistemic justification,’ and that instead epistemological theory should investigate the range of epistemic desiderata that beliefs may enjoy (as well as the nature of and interconnections among the various epistemic good-making properties).
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Epistemic justification puzzle

2011
The thesis explores the semantics of epistemic justification discourse, a very important part of overall epistemic discourse. It embarks from a critical examination of referentialist theories to arrive at a certain nonreferential, expressivist approach to the semantics of epistemic justification discourse. That is, it criticizes the main referentialist
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Epistemic justification and truth

2008
Thesis (Ph.D.) -- La Trobe University, 2008.
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Epistemic Justification: Probability, Normalcy, and the Functional Theory

Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2023
Marvin Backes
exaly  

Students' abilities to evaluate the credibility of online texts: The role of internet-specific epistemic justifications

Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2021
Elina Hämäläinen, Carita Kiili, Miika Marttunen   +2 more
exaly  

Epistemic Justification and Normativity

2001
Abstract Is epistemic justification normative? Discusses four ways of justifying a positive answer, none of which the writer thinks succeed: epistemic justification is normative because it is (1) analogous to moral normativity, (2) a matter of following rules; (3) a matter of trying to achieve certain goals; and (4) analyzable in terms ...
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