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"Antiscepticism and Easy Justification" - Ch 5 of Seemings and Epistemic Justification [PDF]
, 2020 In this chapter I investigate epistemological consequences of the fact that seeming-based justification is elusive, in the sense that the subject can lose this justification simply by reflecting on her seemings.
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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.
De Cruz, Helen +3 more
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Propositional epistemic luck, epistemic risk, and epistemic justification [PDF]
Synthese, 2016 If a subject has a true belief, and she has good evidence for it, and there’s no evidence against it, why should it matter if she doesn’t believe on the basis of the good available evidence? After all, properly based beliefs are no likelier to be true than their corresponding improperly based beliefs, as long as the subject possesses the same good ...
Patrick Bondy, Duncan Pritchard
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Epistemic Justification and Deductive Closure
Crítica, 2018 Epistemic Justification and Deductive ...
Samir Okasha
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Lost in transmission: Testimonial justification and practical reason [PDF]
, 2017 Transmission views of testimony hold that a speaker's knowledge or justification can become the audience's knowledge or justification. We argue that transmission views are incompatible with the hypothesis that one's epistemic state, together with one's ...
Peet, Andrew, Pitcovski, Eli
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Education Sciences, 2021 This study belongs to assessment-related research and aimed to investigate Finnish high-school students’ (n = 211) topic-specific epistemic beliefs about climate change and whether the Norwegian topic-specific epistemic beliefs questionnaire (TSEBQ) was ...
Eija Yli-Panula +2 more
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Leibniz’s Dual Concept of Probability
Journal of Modern Philosophy, 2022 Leibniz uses the concept of probability in both epistemic and non-epistemic contexts, as do many of his contemporaries. Some commentators have claimed that this dual-use is inexact or confused.
Binyamin Eisner
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Epistemic Sentimentalism and Epistemic Reason-Responsiveness [PDF]
, 2018 Epistemic Sentimentalism is the view that emotional experiences such as fear and guilt are a source of immediate justification for evaluative beliefs. For example, guilt can sometimes immediately justify a subject’s belief that they have done something ...
Cowan, Robert
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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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A noção deontológica de justificação epistêmica [PDF]
Princípios, 2007 In this assay we present an introduction to the deontological conception of epistemic justification. We show that the deontological conception of epistemic justification appears of a parallel traced between ethics and epistemology by means of the use of ...
Felipe de Matos Muller
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