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Non‐ideal epistemic rationality
Philosophical Issues, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 72-95, October 2024.Abstract I develop a broadly reliabilist theory of non‐ideal epistemic rationality and argue that if it is correct we should reject the recently popular idea that the standards of non‐ideal epistemic rationality are mere social conventions.
Nick Hughes
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Episteme, 2019 AbstractSurvey data suggest that many philosophers arereliabilists, in believing that beliefs are justified iff produced by a reliable process. This is bad news if reliabilism is true. Empirical results suggest that a commitment to reliable belief-formation leads to overconfident second-guessing of reliable heuristics.
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Abduction and Inference to the Best Explanation
Theoria, 2009 The paper deals with the relation between abduction and inference to the best explanation (IBE). A heuristic and a normative interpretation of IBE are distinguished. Besides, two different normative interpretations —those vindicated by I.
Valeriano Iranzo
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European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 690-707, September 2024.Abstract When one is intentionally doing something, one represents that thing as a goal to be accomplished. One represents it practically. How should we characterize this practical representation further? In this paper, I argue that when one is intentionally doing something, one's representation of it as a goal to be accomplished must also be knowledge
Alec Hinshelwood
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The factivity of practical knowledge
European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 728-742, September 2024.Abstract Anscombean accounts claim that intentional action is essentially characterized by an agent's practical knowledge of what she is doing. Such accounts are threatened by cases in which an agent seemingly fails to know what she is doing because of a mistake in the performance. It thus seems that such accounts are incompatible with the factivity of
Dawa Ometto, Niels van Miltenburg
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Is evidence‐based practice justified?—A philosophical critique
Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, Volume 30, Issue 5, Page 855-859, August 2024.Abstract Background Evidence‐based practice is the principle governing a range of healthcare practices and beyond. However, it has suffered from a lack of philosophical rigour. This paper sets out to analyse the epistemological basis of evidence‐based practice. Method The paper uses a conceptual analysis.
Henrik Berg
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Metaphilosophy, Volume 55, Issue 3, Page 301-315, July 2024.Abstract Naturalism, construed as the idea that philosophy should be continuous with science, is a highly influential view. Its consequences for epistemology, however, are rather odd. Many believe that naturalized epistemology allows eschewing traditional skeptical challenges.
Marc Jiménez‐Rolland
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ERNEST SOSA VE ENTELEKTÜEL ERDEMLER
Felsefe Dünyası, 2016 Modern/Çağdaş epistemolojinin kurucusu olarak kabul edilen çağdaş analitik filozoflardan Ernest Sosa, söz konusu epistemolojisinin en temel iki kavramından bir olan entelektüel erdem kavramını, temelcilik ve bağdaşımcılık arasındaki ‘ezeli’ sorunu ...
Kemal Batak
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Imagination as a generative source of justification
Noûs, Volume 58, Issue 2, Page 386-408, June 2024.Abstract One of the most exciting debates in philosophy of imagination in recent years has been over the epistemic use of imagination where imagination epistemically contributes to justifying beliefs and acquiring knowledge. This paper defends “generationism about imagination” according to which imagination is a generative source, rather than a ...
Kengo Miyazono, Uku Tooming
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Extended Cognitive System and Epistemic Subject
Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2015 The concept of an extended cognitive system is central to contemporary studies of cognition. In the paper I analyze the place of the epistemic subject within the extended cognitive system. Is it extended as well? In answering this question I focus on the
Trybulec Barbara
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