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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
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Foundationalism and the metaphysics of practical reasons
This paper argues that much contemporary thought about practical reasons is saddled with a questionable assumption. The assumption is that practical reasons owe their normative force to their metaphysical nature; or in other words, that "practical reason"
Heath White
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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
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Mulla Sadra’s View of the First Pillar of Foundationalism: The Number of Basic Statements [PDF]
One of the most important epistemological theories is about the justification of foundationalism theory. Although this theory has not been independently debated in the Islamic philosophical tradition, it has been dealt with in the works of Muslim ...
Abbas Ali Mansouri
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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
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Grenz and Franke’s Post-Foundationalism and the Religion Singularity
Termed the “religion singularity” by Kenneth Howard, the habitual fragmentation of institutional Christianity has led to the exponential growth in denominations and worship centers despite the annual growth rate of new believers remaining the same ...
Jeshua B. Branch
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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
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Justification and Inquiry: Resolving the Easy Knowledge Problem
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
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Constructing a non-foundational theological approach to Christian ethics
Postmodernism challenges the idea of any foundational truth on which theoretical and operational systems may be built. This has led to a meta-ethical revision of the resuppositions underlying different ethical systems.
David A. van Oudtshoorn
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Para Aristoteles, conhecimento demonstrativo e o resultado do que ele denomina 'aprendizado intelectual', processo em que o conhecimento da conclusao depende de um conhecimento previo das premissas.
Breno Zuppolini
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