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Debunking and fully apt belief
Filosofia Unisinos, 2018 One of the contentious philosophical issues surrounding the cognitive science of religion (CSR) is whether well-confirmed CSR theories would debunk religious beliefs.
Joshua C. Thurow
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Revista Colombiana de Filosofía de la Ciencia, 2017 En el artículo se defiende que si se acepta la superación entre fundacionismo y coherentismo que plantea Ernest Sosa y se sostiene una teoría de la justificación epistémica basada en el ejercicio de virtudes intelectuales, esta no es condición suficiente
Alfredo Robles
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The Illusion of Permissive Balancing
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 112, Issue 2, Page 437-445, March 2026.ABSTRACT The standard view among philosophers of normativity is that practical reasons balance permissively (i.e., when reasons are tied between incompatible actions, either action is rational), while epistemic reasons balance prohibitively (i.e., when reasons are tied between incompatible doxastic attitudes, neither attitude may be rationally formed).
Jordan Scott
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Ratio, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 10-16, March 2026.ABSTRACT Preservationism in the philosophy of memory is dead, according to many. This opinion is not ill‐founded. It appears to be justified both by common sense and by empirical psychology. But in what follows we explain how and why an independently motivated form of preservationism, modal preservationism, survives.
Sven Bernecker, Paul Silva Jr
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Qua‐Talk and Other Forms of Quackery: Part One
Philosophy Compass, Volume 20, Issue 11, November 2025.ABSTRACT The Latin term “qua” is used occasionally in ordinary discourse but more often as a philosophical term of art. Its purpose is sometimes to avoid what would otherwise be contradictions, as in “necessarily two‐legged qua cyclist, contingently two‐legged qua mathematician.” In this paper, I identify and clarify several of the philosophical uses ...
James Van Cleve
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Sosa’s Responses to Dreaming Skepticism
Crítica, 2019 Ernest Sosa has proposed two different ways to respond to dreaming skepticism. In this paper I argue that Sosa's first response —which centers on holding that we have no beliefs in dreams— does not appear to be successful against (what we have called ...
Claudia Lorena García
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Philosophical Issues, Volume 35, Issue 1, Page 29-39, October 2025.ABSTRACT When what justifies you in believing a proposition is some evidence you have, you are doxastically justified only if you believe that proposition on the basis of that evidence. According to causal theories of basing, this basing relation must be a causal relation.
Juan Comesaña, Carolina Sartorio
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Sosa on reflective knowledge and Knowing Full Well [PDF]
, 2013 Part of a book symposium on Ernest Sosa's Knowing Full Well. An important feature of Sosa's epistemology is his distinction between animal knowledge and reflective knowledge.
Lyons, Jack
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Ernest Sosa ve Gettier Problemi [Ernest Sosa and the Problem of Gettier] [PDF]
, 2016 In this article, I examine first Edmund Gettier’s criticism of the definition of knowledge within the traditional epistemology, then Ernest Sosa’s evaluation of Gettier problem.
Batak, Kemal
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