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Reliabilism and Demon World Victims
Tópicos, 2013 This paper defends reliabilism against the classic demon world victim thought experiment. In doing so, I underscore two of its key alleged intuitions.
Jennifer Wilson Mulnix
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A new statistical solution to the generality problem [PDF]
, 2018 The Generality Problem is widely recognized to be a serious problem for reliabilist theories of justification. James R. Beebe's Statistical Solution is one of only a handful of attempted solutions that has garnered serious attention in the literature. In
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Group as a Distributed Subject of Knowledge: Between Radicalism and Triviality [PDF]
Avant, 2017 In the paper, I distinguish the bottom-up strategy and the intentional stance strategy of analyzing group intentional states, and show that the thesis of distributed group subject of knowledge could be accommodated by either of them.
Barbara Trybulec
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Philosophy of Medicine, 2023 This paper develops an account of the opacity problem in medical machine learning (ML). Guided by pragmatist assumptions, I argue that opacity in ML models is problematic insofar as it potentially undermines the achievement of two key purposes: ensuring
Thomas Grote
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The utility of knowledge [PDF]
, 2011 Recent epistemology has introduced a new criterion of adequacy for analyses of knowledge: such an analysis, to be adequate, must be compatible with the common view that knowledge is better than true belief.
Brown, C.
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Normal Knowledge: Toward an Explanation-Based Theory of Knowledge [PDF]
, 2018 In this paper we argue that knowledge is characteristically safe true belief. We argue that an adequate approach to epistemic luck must not be indexed to methods of belief formation, but rather to explanations for belief.
Peet, Andrew, Pitcovski, Eli
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Experience Does Justify Belief [PDF]
, 2014 According to Fumerton in his "How Does Perception Justify Belief?", it is misleading or wrong to say that perception is a source of justification for beliefs about the external world.
Silins, Nicholas
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Intuition in Contemporary Philosophy [PDF]
, 2014 This chapter will consider three themes relating to the significance of intuitions in contemporary philosophy. In §1, I’ll review and explore the relationship between philosophical use of words like ‘intuitively’ and any kinds of mental states that might
Ichikawa, Jonathan Jenkins
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An Epistemic Non-Consequentialism [PDF]
, 2020 Despite the recent backlash against epistemic consequentialism, an explicit systematic alternative has yet to emerge. This paper articulates and defends a novel alternative, Epistemic Kantianism, which rests on a requirement of respect for the truth ...
Sylvan, Kurt L.
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The Epistemic Virtues of a Closed Mind: Effective Science Reporting in the Golden Age of the Con
Frontiers in Communication, 2021 A financial confidence game (or “con”) aims to separate you from your money. An epistemic con aims to influence social policy by recruiting you to spread doubt and falsehood about well-established claims.
Michael A. Bishop, J. D. Trout
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