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Agripa’s problem [PDF]

open access: yesIdeas y Valores, 2005
Agrippa’s Problem: The purpose of this paper is to present the triple problem (trilemma) of Agrippa that questions the possibility of reaching an epistemological justification of empirical knowledge.
Mauricio Zuluaga
doaj  

Coherentism and Foundationalism in the Practical Domain

open access: yes, 2016
Coherentism and Foundationalism in the Practical ...
Stefano Bertea (7647317)
core   +4 more sources

“Challenging public rhetoric justifying immigrants as ‘indecent’”

open access: yesCogent Arts & Humanities, 2020
Elites employ various rhetorical strategies in public discourse, including on the topic of immigration. As such, those with influence rely on storytelling to shape views about the narratives related to immigrants as a minority out-group.
Aaron Martin   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Facilitator Problem: Politicizing Epistemic‐Democratic Assumptions in the People's Republic of China

open access: yesPhilosophy &Public Affairs, Volume 53, Issue 4, Page 305-320, Fall 2025.
ABSTRACT Within discussions of deliberative democracy, the role of facilitator is ever‐present: they gather participants, introduce expert information, correct for discursive prejudices, and more. Few recognize, however, that facilitators therefore exercise substantive, normative control over the process, thereby constituting a threat to the legitimacy
Emerson R. Bodde
wiley   +1 more source

Anxiety and Evidence

open access: yesPhilosophical Issues, Volume 35, Issue 1, Page 17-28, October 2025.
ABSTRACT When does an agent possess a proposition P as evidence? According to Timothy Williamson, the answer is when, and only when, they know that P. Call this view E = K. In this article, I point out an unwanted consequence of E = K, which is that people who suffer from anxiety have impoverished empirical evidence due to their anxiety.
Rhys Borchert
wiley   +1 more source

Metaphysical Foundationalism [PDF]

open access: yes
Metaphysical foundationalism is the view that ground is well-founded. Despite its reputation as the default view of the general structure of reality, it is a view with few explicit defenders whose theoretical virtues remain largely unexplored. This paper
Bevan, Michael
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Justification and Inquiry: Resolving the Easy Knowledge Problem

open access: yesTheoria, Volume 91, Issue 5, October 2025.
ABSTRACT Bootstrapping and the easy knowledge problem can be understood as puzzles about conflicting intuitions. On one hand, each step of the inference seems correct, but on the other, the overall process seems unacceptable. These puzzles will be resolved by establishing two distinctions.
Guido Melchior
wiley   +1 more source

Justificação epistêmica fundacionismo e coerentismo

open access: yesIdeas y Valores, 2017
E. Gettier's article "Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?" changed the course of epistemology by analyzing the issue of justified truth regarding propositional knowledge and detecting a problem with the traditional definition of knowledge.
Elnora Gondim
doaj   +1 more source

Forgetting foundationalism

open access: yes, 1997
Foundationalism is a traditional metaphilosophical position which holds that reality can be explained and described absolutely. Foundationalists maintain that our questions about reality inquire beyond the capabilities of our ordinary language and that ...
Wellon, Christopher
core   +1 more source

Hacia una visión no fundacionalista del concepto de solidaridad: liberalismo y solidaridad en Richard Rorty

open access: yesRevista de Estudios Sociales, 2013
Rorty invites us to abandon the belief that moral foundationalism of a universalist nature is useful for the moral progress of our societies. Instead, he suggests that post-modern secular liberalism and solidarity, understood as a local identification ...
Santiago De Zubiría
doaj   +1 more source

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