Epistemic Justification and the Skeptical Challenge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Epistemic Justification and the Skeptical Challenge write by H. Vahid. This book was released on 2005-08-02. Epistemic Justification and the Skeptical Challenge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the concept of epistemic justification and our understanding of the problem of skepticism. Providing critical examination of key responses to the skeptical challenge, Hamid Vahid presents a theory which is shown to work alongside the internalism/externalism issue and the thesis of semantic externalism, with a deontological conception of justification at its core.
Formal Epistemology and Cartesian Skepticism
Formal Epistemology and Cartesian Skepticism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Formal Epistemology and Cartesian Skepticism write by Tomoji Shogenji. This book was released on 2017-11-15. Formal Epistemology and Cartesian Skepticism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book develops new techniques in formal epistemology and applies them to the challenge of Cartesian skepticism. It introduces two formats of epistemic evaluation that should be of interest to epistemologists and philosophers of science: the dual-component format, which evaluates a statement on the basis of its safety and informativeness, and the relative-divergence format, which evaluates a probabilistic model on the basis of its complexity and goodness of fit with data. Tomoji Shogenji shows that the former lends support to Cartesian skepticism, but the latter allows us to defeat Cartesian skepticism. Along the way, Shogenji addresses a number of related issues in epistemology and philosophy of science, including epistemic circularity, epistemic closure, and inductive skepticism.
Epistemology and the Regress Problem
Epistemology and the Regress Problem - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Epistemology and the Regress Problem write by Scott Aikin. This book was released on 2010-11-23. Epistemology and the Regress Problem available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the last decade, the familiar problem of the regress of reasons has returned to prominent consideration in epistemology. And with the return of the problem, evaluation of the options available for its solution is begun anew. Reason’s regress problem, roughly put, is that if one has good reasons to believe something, one must have good reason to hold those reasons are good. And for those reasons, one must have further reasons to hold they are good, and so a regress of reasons looms. In this new study, Aikin presents a full case for infinitism as a response to the problem of the regress of reasons. Infinitism is the view that one must have a non-terminating chain of reasons in order to be justified. The most defensible form of infinitism, he argues, is that of a mixed theory – that is, epistemic infinitism must be consistent with and integrate other solutions to the regress problem.
Evidentialism and Epistemic Justification
Evidentialism and Epistemic Justification - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Evidentialism and Epistemic Justification write by Kevin McCain. This book was released on 2014-05-09. Evidentialism and Epistemic Justification available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Evidentialism is a popular theory of epistemic justification, yet, as early proponents of the theory Earl Conee and Richard Feldman admit, there are many elements that must be developed before Evidentialism can provide a full account of epistemic justification, or well-founded belief. It is the aim of this book to provide the details that are lacking; here McCain moves past Evidentialism as a mere schema by putting forward and defending a full-fledged theory of epistemic justification. In this book McCain offers novel approaches to several elements of well-founded belief. Key among these are an original account of what it takes to have information as evidence, an account of epistemic support in terms of explanation, and a causal account of the basing relation (the relation that one's belief must bear to her evidence in order to be justified) that is far superior to previous accounts. The result is a fully developed Evidentialist account of well-founded belief.
Epistemic Justification
Epistemic Justification - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Epistemic Justification write by Laurence BonJour. This book was released on 2003-04-22. Epistemic Justification available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ever since Plato it has been thought that one knows only if one's belief hits the mark of truth and does so with adequate justification. The issues debated by Laurence BonJour and Ernest Sosa concern mostly the nature and conditions of such epistemic justification, and its place in our understanding of human knowledge. Presents central issues pertaining to internalism vs. externalism and foundationalism vs. virtue epistemology in the form of a philosophical debate. Introduces students to fundamental questions within epistemology while engaging in contemporary debates. Written by two of today’s foremost epistemologists. Includes an extensive bibliography.
