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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Experience and Epistemic Structure: Can Cognitive Penetration Result in Epistemic Downgrade? [PDF]
Reflection on the possibility of cases in which experience is cognitively penetrated has suggested to many that an experience's etiology can reduce its capacity to provide prima facie justification for believing its content below a baseline.
Chudnoff, Elijah
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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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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 ...
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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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Explanationism: Defended on All Sides [PDF]
Explanationists about epistemic justification hold that justification depends upon explanatory considerations. After a bit of a lull, there has recently been a resurgence of defenses of such views.
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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The Super Justification Argument for Phenomenal Transparency [PDF]
In Consciousness and Fundamental Reality, Philip Goff argues that the case against physicalist views of consciousness turns on ‘Phenomenal Transparency’, roughly the thesis that phenomenal concepts reveal the essential nature of phenomenal properties ...
Morris, Kevin
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Disqualifying ‘Disqualifiers’ [PDF]
In addition to the notion of defeat, do we need to expand the epistemological repertoire used in accounting for the context dependence of justification?
Madison, B. J. C.
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