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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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Evolutionary Approach to Realism [PDF]
Common sense realism and scientific realism are two metaphysical thesis. The former accepts the existence of the observable entities of common sense knowledge and the later accepts the unobservable entities necessary for the well-established scientific ...
Farshid Daneshpajooh +2 more
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John Turri has recently called for a major shift in how the vast majority of philosophers think of knowledge. Instead of maintaining that knowledge must proceed from reliable processes, he urges epistemologists to move toward an “abilist” view that ...
Kevin Meeker
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Recent Work on Reliabilist Virtue Epistemology [PDF]
The paper aims to examine and criticize recent approaches suggested by some virtue reliabilists. To this end, section 2 provides a sketch of Sosa’s triple account of knowledge, on which knowledge is described as a cognitive achievement and an apt belief.
Mohammad Hossein Mohamad Ali Khalaj
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On Mr Truetemp's Lack of Virtue
Keith Lehrer’s case of Mr Truetemp, whose reliably formed true beliefs about the temperature are the result of a tempucomp implanted in his head, is designed as a counterexample to process reliabilism. In this short note, the example is explored from the
Howard Sankey
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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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Representations, judgments, and the swamping problem for reliabilism
This article argues for a way out of the swamping problem by showing where his virtue epistemology substantially departs from traditional process reliabilism and how such departure is enough to protect the former from issues that affect the way the ...
Ernest Sosa
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A Critical Study of the Pure Virtue Epistemology of Zagzebski [PDF]
In the evaluation of knowledge from the epistemological point of view on one hand such as fundamentalism, coherentism, and reliabilism, and on the other hand externalism and internalism have been proposed. The pure Virtue Epistemology theory was proposed
Abass Khosravi Bizhaem +3 more
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Reliabilism: Modal, Probabilistic Or Contextualist [PDF]
This paper discusses two versions of reliabilism: modal and probabilistic reliabilism. Modal reliabilism faces the problem of the missing closeness metric for possible worlds while probalistic reliabilism faces the problem of the relevant reference class.
Baumann, Peter
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Metacognition as Evidence for Evidentialism [PDF]
Metacognition is the monitoring and controlling of cognitive processes. I examine the role of metacognition in ‘ordinary retrieval cases’, cases in which it is intuitive that via recollection the subject has a justified belief.
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