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Does Suppositional Reasoning Solve the Bootstrapping Problem? [PDF]
In a 2002 article Stewart Cohen advances the “bootstrapping problem” for what he calls “basic justification theories,” and in a 2010 followup he offers a solution to the problem, exploiting the idea that suppositional reasoning may be used with ...
Van Cleve, James
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Trading One Kind of Dogmatism for Another: Comments on Williams Criticism of Aggripan Scepticism
M. Williams’ analysis (1999, 2001 and 2004b) of the Prior Grounding Conception (PGC) of epistemic justification — a conception allegedly behind the Agrippan trilemma — is reviewed and it is contrasted with the Default Challenge Conception of ...
Armando Cíntora, Jorge Ornelas
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MEMORY COMPATIBILISM: PRESERVING AND GENERATING POSITIVE EPISTEMIC STATUS [PDF]
The contemporary epistemological debate regarding the epistemic role of memory is dominated by the dispute between two different views: memory preservationism and memory generativism. While the former holds that memory only preserves the epistemic status
Tiegue Vieira Rodrigues
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Epistemic justification and epistemic luck [PDF]
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.
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Pragmatics in Epistemology: Analyzing Pragmatic Encroachment vs. Epistemic Purism [PDF]
Epistemological orthodoxy is a purist one in the sense that it permits only truth-related factors to be relevant to whether or not true belief amounts to knowledge. Contrary to this orthodoxy, ‘Pragmatic Encroachment’ argues that embracing fallibilism we
zeinab salari, Ebrahim Azadegan
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The Epistemology of Transcendent Wisdom on the Relation between the Propositional Knowledge and Intuitive Knowledge with Epistemic Justification [PDF]
In transcendental philosophy "knowledge" is deemed to be existence. Although analysis of Knowledge in the light of existential interpretation, can provide the specific features of two types of Propositional and intuitive knowledge in epistemology of ...
محمد حسین وفائیان +1 more
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Undaunted Explanationism [PDF]
Explanationism is a plausible view of epistemic justification according to which justification is a matter of explanatory considerations. Despite its plausibility, explanationism is not without its critics. In a recent issue of this journal T.
McCain, Kevin
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A reductio of coherentism [PDF]
An argument is presented which shows that coherence theories of justification are committed to a conception of epistemic support which conflicts with an axiom of probability ...
Stoneham, Tom
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Just do it? When to do what you judge you ought to do [PDF]
While it is generally believed that justification is a fallible guide to the truth, there might be interesting exceptions to this general rule. In recent work on bridge-principles, an increasing number of authors have argued that truths about what a ...
Anna Polak (521358) +5 more
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How individuals process and understand controversial scientific issues with social implications has been linked to their beliefs about epistemic justification, which concern how knowledge claims can be justified.
Meng-Jung Tsai +3 more
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