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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"internalism"”.
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Internalism and armchair reasoning
… the stage. I introduce the distinction between internalism and externalism, which plays a crucial role throughout the thesis. Roughly speaking, internalists think that one is justified in holding a given belief only if one can access adequate evidence for it, upon reflection, while externalists …
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Moral Motivation and the Devil
… call into question the thesis known as judgment internalism about moral motivation. Broadly construed, this thesis holds that there is a non-contingent relation between moral judgment and moral motivation. The difficulty for judgment internalism arises because of amoral agents: when an agent both …
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Causal efficacy and externalist mental content
Internalism about mental content is the view that microphysical duplicates must be mental duplicates as well. This dissertation develops and defends the idea that only a strong version of internalism is compatible with our commonsense commitment to mental causation. Chapter one defends a novel …
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Epistemic Rationality and Justification
… compare the Bayesian theory with reliabilism and internalism to further elucidate the difference between epistemic rationality and justification. The Bayesian analyses of cases against reliabilism show that it can be epistemically irrational to hold a reliably formed belief. In comparing the …
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Moral Responsibility and Motivating Reasons: On the Epistemic Condition for Moral Blameworthiness
… discussion of different varieties of culpability internalism, where I argue that volitionism is ultimately too strong a variety of internalism and that my proposal is the way forward.
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Not by reasons alone
… More particularly, I defend reasons internalism - the claim that desires are a necessary condition on practical reasons - by developing a new version of this thesis. In this version, desires serve to veto practical reasons, which are in turn grounded in objective values. I argue that …
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Peter Railton's moral realism
… instrumental rationality, ideal observer theory, internalism, justification of morality and his objections to non-cognitivism.
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Deception in Sport: A Conceptual and Ethical Analysis
… from formalism, conventionalism and broad internalism sheds lights on what deceptive practices should be deemed ethically permissible for use and which tactics should not be a part of an athlete’s repertoire. By understanding which categories of deception are permissible, the most fair and …
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A belief analysis of the build-up to the 2003 Iraq War
… value, the research explores a commonsensical, internalism, and a non-commonsensical, externalism, justification theory along with deontologism as a possible source of motivation behind the internalist constraint on justification. This research concludes, in light of the evidential conditions at …
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How We Do What We Do: Joint Action and Spontaneity
… with spontaneity. Both motivating reasons and internalism about normative reasons are found lacking. Instead, it is argued that realism about normative reasons provides the best account of normative group reasons because the objective nature of real reasons eliminates the need for binding …
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Access and anticipation
… the most attractive features of externalism and internalism.
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Where is the mind of the media editor? An analysis of editors as intermediaries between technology and the cinematic experience
… these two views on the location of the mind: internalism and externalism. In cinema, the role of editor as mediator between the cognitive activities of filmmakers, audiences and the editing equipment, makes their practice particularly suited for investigating these two seemingly incompatible …
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AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE AND BECOMING GOOD: AN EXAMINATION OF THE CONNECTION BETWEEN AESTHETICS AND ETHICS IN PLATO, KANT, AND IRIS MURDOCH
… between them. The first thesis is motivational internalism about the good, and the second thesis is the substantive claim that the moral is, in fact, good. Therefore, when one understands the moral as good she has motivation towards it. However, humans do not necessarily have such an …
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Kataleptic impression and the problem of justification
… the binary lens of contemporary epistemic internalism and externalism alone. By tracing the historical evolution of the kataleptic impression from Zeno to Chrysippus, and re-evaluating the nature of the Academic objections, I have attempted to demonstrate that the core of this dispute was …
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Language and scientific explanation: where does semantics fit in?
The problem of intentionality is the problem of how some entities can be ‘about’ something. That is, sentences, thoughts, or symbols, among other things, display intentionality in that they are about something else; they are said to be a representation of something. This problem is usually framed …
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A "Veritable Jekyll and Hyde" - Epistemic Circularity and Reliabilist Theories of Justification
In philosophical theories of knowledge (epistemology), justification is a desirable property that one's beliefs ought to have before they can be accepted as part of a rational discourse. Roughly, for internalists about justification, a belief is justified if the subject has or has available to him …