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I Believe in order to Understand:An Externalist Analysis of Augustin’s Viewpoint [PDF]
The Augustinian theologian's unusual assertion that understanding rests on the faith, seems to be confronted with various objections. Through analyzing, criticizing, and refuting these objections, we will clarify epistemological status of this assertion.
Mahdi Soleimani Khormuji +1 more
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How can neuroscience contribute to moral philosophy, psychology and education based on Aristotelian virtue ethics? [PDF]
The present essay discusses the relationship between moral philosophy, psychology and education based on virtue ethics, contemporary neuroscience, and how neuroscientific methods can contribute to studies of moral virtue and character. First, the present
Han, Hyemin
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Meaning, Understanding and Action
The criteria for a learner’s understanding the words of a language include acting appropriately. In the case of Anscombean modals (e.g., ‘You have to φ’), these actions include whatever is specified in the modal statement (e.g., φ-ing). Teaching language
Roger Teichmann
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Externalism, skepticism and epistemic luck [PDF]
This paper deals with the concept of epistemic luck and its place within wider philosophical debates on knowledge and skepticism. Philosophers involved in these debates share an intuition that knowledge excludes luck.
Lazović Živan
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I describe and motivate Rational Internalism, a principle concerning the relationship between motivating reasons (which explain actions) and normative reasons (which justify actions). I use this principle to construct a novel argument against Objectivist
Asarnow, Samuel
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This paper examines how new evil demon problems could arise for our access to the internal world of our own minds. I start by arguing that the internalist/externalist debate in epistemology has been widely misconstrued---we need to reconfigure the ...
Silins, Nicholas
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Internalizm motywacyjny Richarda Hare'a (MOTIVATIONAL INTERNALISM BY RICHARD HARE) [PDF]
Ethics of Richard M. Hare is widely considered as a classical example of the strong internalistic theory of motivation: he is thought to believe that having a moral motive is a sufficient condition to act accordingly.
Krzysztof Saja
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A Critical Analysis of Process Reliabilism in "What is justified belief?" [PDF]
Process reliabilism is one of the most important, and impressive theories in epistemology that was formulated by Alvin Goldman in "What is justified belief?" in 1970s. In this paper, first, we describe process reliablism in a simple form.
abdollah ansaari, jalal peykani
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Updating for Externalists [PDF]
The externalist says that your evidence could fail to tell you what evidence you do or not do have. In that case, it could be rational for you to be uncertain about what your evidence is. This is a kind of uncertainty which orthodox Bayesian epistemology
Gallow, J. Dmitri
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Epistemic Internalism and Knowledge-Relevant Anti-Individualist Responsibility
In contemporary epistemology, there are a number of particular internalism/externalism debates. My concern here is with the internalism/externalism controversy about some specific positive epistemic status required for knowledge which is normally ...
Leandro de Brasi
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