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Foundationalism And The Idea Of The Empirical [PDF]
, 2008 This thesis is about foundationalism in epistemology. It distinguishes between different forms of foundationalism and defends one particular version of this doctrine. Chapter 1 gives an account of the motivations for foundationalism, including the so-called epistemic regress argument.
Fairley, Ciara
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Foundationalism for Modest Infi nitists [PDF]
Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 2010 We find two main contemporary arguments for the infinitist theory of epistemic justification (‘infinitism’ for short): the regress argument (Klein 1999, 2005) and the features argument (Fantl 2003).
John Turri
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Toward a Global Bioethics: Principlism and the Problem of Political Legitimacy. [PDF]
BioethicsABSTRACT Tom Beauchamp and James Childress's Principles of Biomedical Ethics introduced principlism—or the “four principles approach”—which has since become one of the most influential frameworks in contemporary bioethics. However, its potential to serve as a foundation for shared transcultural bioethical norms has elicited both substantial support and
Annoni M.
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International Humanitarian Law and the Immunity of Hospitals in Gaza. [PDF]
BioethicsABSTRACT International Humanitarian Law (IHL), specifically Article 18 of the IV Geneva Convention, affords special protection to civilian hospitals. This special protection is waived, however, under certain circumstances specified in Article 19. Such conditions to waive the special protection of hospitals are now being used by Israel to justify the ...
Lederman Z.
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J Eval Clin PractAbstract Medicine is a compound field composed of science and art. The (necessary) degree to which the latter is involved opens medicine, in particular, to the introduction of ideas which do not, by their very nature, submit to confirmation or confutation as do the various methods of traditional science.
Baker SK.
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Metaphysical Foundationalism: Consensus and Controversy [PDF]
, 2022 There has been an explosion of interest in the metaphysics of fundamentality in recent decades. The consensus view, called metaphysical foundationalism, maintains that there is something absolutely fundamental in reality upon which everything else ...
Oberle, Thomas
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Probability without certainty Foundationalism and the Lewis-Reichenbach debate [PDF]
, 2005 Like many discussions on the pros and cons of epistemic foundationalism, the debate between C.I. Lewis and H. Reichenbach dealt with three concerns: the existence of basic beliefs, their nature, and the way in which beliefs are related.
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Internalist Foundationalism and the Sellarsian Dilemma [PDF]
, 2013 According to foundationalism, some beliefs are justified but do not depend for their justification on any other beliefs. According to access internalism, a subject is justified in believing some proposition only if that subject is aware of or has access
Hasan, Ali
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Acta Theologica, 2007 Postmodern interdisciplinarity provides a more flexible and productive methodological framework for the age-old dialogue between theology and the natural sciences than did the modern more rigid and oppositional disciplinary framework. Taking the work of
M. C. de Lange
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Relativism: A demon roaming through science [PDF]
Zbornik Instituta za pedagoška istraživanja, 2003 The advocates of the so-called "hard science" view relativism as an extreme undesirable standpoint. The ill fame of relativism is most frequently explained by the opinion that relativism is striving, in general, for the position where "everything is ...
Stojnov Dušan B.
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