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Categorial versus naturalized epistemology
Analytic Philosophy, Volume 66, Issue 4, Page 658-673, December 2025.Abstract How do we know what kinds of things constitute knowledge or justified belief? Naturalized epistemology is committed to denying a priori insight into the kinds of kinds that are and are not knowledge or justification makers. By contrast, it is argued here that knowledge of these matters is a priori knowledge of a special kind.
Nick Zangwill
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Solving the Current Generality Problem [PDF]
, 2016 Many current popular views in epistemology require a belief to be the result of a reliable process (aka ‘method of belief formation’ or ‘cognitive capacity’) in order to count as knowledge. This means that the generality problem rears its head, i.e.
Wallbridge, Kevin
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Perfect‐Recall and Bootstrapping Reasoning
Theoria, Volume 91, Issue 6, December 2025.ABSTRACT Bootstrapping is a suspicious form of reasoning that seems to allow agents to gain knowledge about the reliability of their sources of information ‘from thin air’, without gathering independent evidence about those sources. The bootstrapping problem is the problem of explaining what is wrong with bootstrapping reasoning.
Michael Cohen
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«Cogito Ergo Sum» and Philofsophy of Action
Sententiae, 2015 Analytical philosophy opens new perspectives of studies in the history of philosophy. There are (1) generalized history of analytical interpretations of Cartesian principle cogito ergo sum and (2) analysis of Cartesianism through the prism of ...
Anna Laktionova
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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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On the Nature of Intellectual Vice [PDF]
, 2017 Vice epistemology, as Quassim Cassam understands it, is the study of the nature, identity, and significance of the epistemic vices. But what makes an intellectual vice a vice?
Madison, B. J. C.
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A Better Disjunctivist Response to the 'New Evil Genius' Challenge [PDF]
, 2017 This paper aims for a more robust epistemological disjunctivism (ED) by offering on its behalf a new and better response to the ‘new evil genius’ problem. The first section articulates the ‘new evil genius challenge’ (NEG challenge) to ED, specifying its
Shaw, Kegan J.
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Philosophical Issues, Volume 35, Issue 1, Page 115-125, October 2025.ABSTRACT Having evidence does not in itself make a doxastic attitude justified even if the evidence supports the attitude in question. Plausibly, one must also appreciate the support one's evidence provides for the doxastic attitude. Although such appreciation seems central to the picture of justification offered by Evidentialism, its nature has been ...
Kevin McCain
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The Degree of Reliability of Epistemic Processes in Mulla sadra’s Philosophy and virtue Process Epistemology [PDF]
حکمت صدرایی, 2017 Based on perceptual faculties which are effective in knowledge acquisition, Mulla Sadra divides the process of knowledge acquisition to three processes of sense, imagination, and intellect.
akram askarzadeh mazraeh
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Mind &Language, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 402-417, September 2025.P. F. Strawson famously distinguishes what a speaker presupposes from what she asserts in uttering a sentence like “The present King of France is bald”. This paper defends a claim about presupposition's epistemic significance, namely that presupposition can provide a distinctive testimony‐based way for an audience to learn about the world.
Dominic Alford‐Duguid
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