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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Epistemic Justification"”.
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Why Pluralism About Epistemic Justification is the Worst of Both Worlds
… ought to be internalists or externalists about epistemic justification. Internalists say that whether an agent's belief is justified depends on facts internally accessible to the agent, and externalists deny this. But what if internalists and externalists could both be right? This would be a …
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The Case Against Foundationalism: An Examination of Some Main Anti-Foundational Arguments
… been raised against foundational theories of epistemic justification. Toward this end I begin in the Introduction by defining some key terms, giving a first (somewhat rough) characterization of foundationalism, and providing a list of ten sorts of anti-foundational arguments to be considered.
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Darwinian humility : epistemological applications of evolutionary science
… exploring the relation between human cognition, epistemic luck, and biological and cultural fitness. In "The Epistemic Upshot of Adaptationist Explanation," I argue that knowledge of the evolution by natural selection of human cognition might either defeat, bolster, or preclude the epistemic …
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Descartes and Foundationalism: A Definitive Explanation for Knowledge Possession?
… Foundationalism is presented as a theory of epistemic justification. In other words, foundationalism attempts to answer the question: how can we justify what we claim to ‘know’? On the foundationalist account, there are basic beliefs whose justification does not depend on any other beliefs. …
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A contextualist research paradigm for rhetoric and composition
… methodological choices.A Contextualist Theory of Epistemic Justification (Annis, 1978) provides a new lens through which we may recontextualize the competing epistemologies our field has outlined, providing a new decision-making framework through which we may appreciate the intersection of …
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Common sense epistemology : a defense of seemings as evidence.
… evidentialist, deontological conception of epistemic justification, this dissertation constitutes a defense of common sense epistemology. Common sense epistemology is a theory of ultimate evidence. At its center is a type of mental state called "seemings"—the kind we possess when something …
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A belief analysis of the build-up to the 2003 Iraq War
… favour of the given rationale under conditions epistemically inadequate to warrant belief. I will explore the concept of belief in relation to acceptance and faith in a bid to highlight the distinctive character of belief. The research aims to examine a possible attribution of belief and …
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Peircean Epistemic Democracy: Truth, Pluralism, and Religion
… dissertation, I argue for a pluralist Peircean epistemic approach to democratic justification to address the challenge of reasonable pluralism. Whereas public reason approaches to democratic justification require citizens privatize their worldviews, an epistemic approach to democracy allows …
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Nietzsche's Theory of Cognition: An Interpretation and Defense of Perspectivism
… regarding, if not truth, then at least epistemic justification. I argue that Nietzsche does not need to abandon the most radical of his conclusions, and he can still account for how and why some positions on theoretical and philosophical matters are better than others, and so an …
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The Truth Norm Account of Justification
… I argue that the truth norm can indeed explain justification in the way I’ve outlined. I do this by answering four criticisms that have been made of the claim that belief is subject to a truth norm. These criticisms claim that a truth norm should be rejected because, in turn, a truth norm cannot …