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ABSTRACT Consent plays an important role in our lives. Using someone's body or property without their consent is typically a serious wrong. However, there are various ways in which consensual interactions may be morally deficient. This paper articulates an underexplored way in which consent can be defective, namely by being moot.
Elise Woodard
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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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ABSTRACT This conceptual essay, grounded in a close reading of Plato's Theaetetus, argues that before educators can effectively operationalise critical thinking as the rigorous evaluation ('stress‐testing') of competing knowledge claims, university students must first understand foundational epistemological principles rooted in Plato's tripartite ...
Gerry Dunne
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Implications of Rejecting Common‐Sense Realism for the Practice and Aim of Knowledge‐Based Education
Abstract In this article, I assume that it is universally accepted that education—at least sometimes—should aim at knowledge. Moreover, I take my point of departure from the classical (and minimal) definition of knowledge in terms of justified true belief (JTB).
Henrik Friberg‐Fernros
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L’any 1963, Edmund Gettier publicava, a la revista Analysis, volum 23, el seu article titulat «És el coneixement una creença vertadera justificada?», cridat a marcar una època en l’epistemologia contemporània.
Miquel Montserrat i Capella
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Knowledge first, all the way down
Abstract Knowledge‐first philosophy has fewer adherents than it should. It has the potential to address many of the common problems facing epistemologists, but it is counter‐intuitive in some respects. In this paper, I make the case that the underlying metaphysics of Timothy Williamson's account of knowledge‐first is responsible for some of this ...
Tess Dewhurst
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Referential Understanding, Luck, and Knowledge of Reference
Abstract In some cases of communication, the hearer misunderstands the referential part of the speaker's utterance although she identifies the speaker's referent. What more is needed for referential understanding? One view is that the hearer must know what the speaker refers to.
Victor Tamburini
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On the significance of L. Zagzebski’s results for solving the Gettier problem
The article is devoted to the analysis of the authoritative research results of L. Zagzebski on the Gettier problem, which has not been solved for many years.
R. A. Yartsev
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A gnoseologia segundo Ernest Sosa
Ernest Sosa enfatiza a diferença entre a teoria do conhecimento (ou, simplesmente, gnoseologia) e a ética intelectual, no interior de uma epistemologia.
João Carlos Salles
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Abstract This essay offers an explanation of how assertions express that the speaker has a propositional attitude toward what's asserted. The explanation is that this feature of assertion is owed to a hearer's spontaneous mindreading. I call this the assertoric mindreading hypothesis.
Peter van Elswyk
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