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Empirical Justification

Author : P.K. Moser
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400945264
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Empirical Justification written by P.K. Moser and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broadly speaking, this is a book about truth and the criteria thereof. Thus it is, in a sense, a book about justification and rationality. But it does not purport to be about the notion of justification or the notion of rationality. For the assumption that there is just one notion of justification, or just one notion of rationality, is, as the book explains, very misleading. Justification and rationality come in various kinds. And to that extent, at least, we should recognize a variety of notions of justification and rationality. This, at any rate, is one of the morals of Chapter VI. This book, in Chapters I-V, is mainly concerned with the kind of justification and rationality characteristic of a truth-seeker, specifically a seeker of truth about the world impinging upon the senses: the so-called empirical world. Hence the book's title. But since the prominent contemporary approaches to empirical justification are many and varied, so also are the epistemological issues taken up in the following chapters. For instance, there will be questions about so-called coherence and its role, if any, in empirical justification. And there will be questions about social consensus (whatever it is) and its significance, or the lack thereof, to empirical justification. Furthermore, the perennial question of whether, and if so how, empirical knowledge has so-called founda tions will be given special attention.

The Structure of Empirical Knowledge

Author : Laurence BonJour
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674262158
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book The Structure of Empirical Knowledge written by Laurence BonJour and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1988-03-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How must our knowledge be systematically organized in order to justify our beliefs? There are two options—the solid securing of the ancient foundationalist pyramid or the risky adventure of the new coherentist raft. For the foundationalist like Descartes each piece of knowledge can be stacked to build a pyramid. Not so, argues Laurence BonJour. What looks like a pyramid is in fact a dead end, a blind alley. Better by far to choose the raft. Here BonJour sets out the most extensive antifoundationalist argument yet developed. The first part of the book offers a systematic exposition of foundationalist views and formulates a general argument to show that no variety of foundationalism provides an acceptable account of empirical justification. In the second part he explores a coherence theory of empirical knowledge and argues that a defensible theory must incorporate an adequate conception of observation. The book concludes with an account of the correspondence theory of empirical truth and an argument that systems of empirical belief which satisfy the coherentist standard of justification are also likely to be true.

Empirical Justification

Author : Paul K. Moser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Empirical Justification written by Paul K. Moser and published by . This book was released on 1985-11-30 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Reliability of the Cognitive Mechanism

Author : William J. Talbott
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317440137
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book The Reliability of the Cognitive Mechanism written by William J. Talbott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-05 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1990. Examining epistemic justification, truth and logic, this book works towards a holistic theory of knowledge. It discusses evidence, belief, reliability and many philosophical theories surrounding the nature of true knowledge. A thorough Preface updates the main work from when it was written in 1976 to include theories ascendant in the ‘80s.

A Theory of System Justification

Author : John T. Jost
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0674244656
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book A Theory of System Justification written by John T. Jost and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychologist John Jost has spent decades researching poor people who vote for policies of inequality and women who think men deserve higher salaries. He argues that the persecuted often justify and defend the very social systems that oppress them because doing so serves a fundamental need for certainty, security, and social acceptance.

Truth and Justification

Author : Jürgen Habermas
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745695000
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Truth and Justification written by Jürgen Habermas and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-12-10 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this important new book, Jürgen Habermas takes up certain fundamental questions of philosophy. While much of his recent work has been concerned with issues of morality and law, in this new work Habermas returns to the traditional philosophical questions of truth, objectivity and reality which were at the centre of his earlier classic book Knowledge and Human Interests. How can the norms that underpin the linguistically structured world in which we live be brought into step with the contingency of the development of socio-cultural forms of life? How can the idea that our world exists independently of our attempts to describe it be reconciled with the insight that we can never reach reality without the mediation of language and that 'bare' reality is therefore unattainable? In Knowledge and Human Interests Habermas answered these questions with reference to a weak naturalism and a transcendental-pragmatic realism. Since then, however, he has developed a formal pragmatic theory which is based on an analysis of speech acts and language use. In this new volume Habermas takes up the philosophical questions of truth, objectivity and reality from the perspective of his linguistically-based pragmatic theory. The final section addresses the limits of philosophy and reassesses the relation between theory and practice from a perspective that could be described as 'post-Marxist'. This volume, now available in paperback as well, by one of the world's leading philosophers will be essential reading for students and scholars of philosophy, social theory and the humanities and social sciences generally.

Empirical Knowledge

Author : Paul K. Moser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Empirical Knowledge written by Paul K. Moser and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition provides an excellent overview of the field of epistemology. Revised sections on justification and knowledge and the Gettier Problem, and new sections on skepticism and naturalized epistemology, present the most important foundational and recent work in the theory of knowledge. Organized specifically with courses in mind, Empirical Knowledge is accessible to upper-level undergraduates and graduate students.

Skepticism, Justification, and Explanation

Author : E. Cornman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 940098958X
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Skepticism, Justification, and Explanation written by E. Cornman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a manuscript that was virtually complete when James W. Cornman died. Most of the chapters were in final form, and all but the last had been revised by the author. The last chapter was in handwritten form, and the concluding remarks were not finished. Swain took charge of the proofreading and John L. Thomas compiled the indices with the assistance of Lehrer. It is our opinion that this manuscript, like the other books Cornman published, is one of exceptional scholarly and philo sophical importance. As do all of his philosophical publications, this work reflects Cornman's great love for philosophy and his commitment to the search for truth. Every serious student and author of epistemology will benefit from and admire the thorough scholarship and rigorous argumentation they will find herein. It has been our privilege to partici pate in the preparation of the manuscript for the philosophical public. KEITH LEHRER MARSHALL SWAIN IX INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION TO EPISTEMOLOGICAL SKEPTICISM Many philosophers try to refute skepticism, but few try to give a precise characterization of the thesis they attack. My first aim, consequently, is to characterize skepticism, or, more precisely, several species of skepticism. Then I shall choose those species I wish to consider and justify my choice. To begin, let me distinguish what I shall call "epistemological skepticism" from the thesis I shall call "ontological nihilism" and from what is believed by someone whom I shall call an "ontological skeptic".

A Foundationalist Theory of Empirical Justification

Author : Timothy Robert Colburn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book A Foundationalist Theory of Empirical Justification written by Timothy Robert Colburn and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Priori Justification

Author : Albert Casullo
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195115058
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book A Priori Justification written by Albert Casullo and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The topic of a priori knowledge has been central to analytic philosophy for the past two centuries. Casullo's book, based on previously published and unpublished work, systematically addresses questions that have, since Kant, formed the core of the debate.

Epistemic Justification

Author : William P. Alston
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801495441
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book Epistemic Justification written by William P. Alston and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Epistemic Justification collects twelve distinguished and influential essays in epistemology by William P. Alston taken from a body of work spanning almost two decades. They represent the gradual development of Alston's thought in epistemology.He concentrates on topics that are central to contemporary epistemology and provides a much-needed and useful map to these issues be explicitly distinguishing and interrelating concepts of justification used in epistemology. More important, he develops and defends his own distinctive epistemic view throughout the volume. Notably, he argues for an account of justification that combines both internalist and externalist features. In addition, he discusses various forms of foundationalism and supports a moderate form. Finally, Alston demonstrates that the epistemic circularity that often plagues our attempts to validate our basic sources of belief does not prevent our showing that they are reliable sources of knowledge.

Justification and Empirical Knowledge

Author : R. Audi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book Justification and Empirical Knowledge written by R. Audi and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Scepticism and Perceptual Justification

Author : Dylan Dodd
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191502499
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Scepticism and Perceptual Justification written by Dylan Dodd and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the hardest problems in the history of Western philosophy has been to explain whether and how experience can provide knowledge (or even justification for belief) about the objective world outside the experiencer's mind. A prominent brand of scepticism has precisely denied that experience can provide such knowledge. How, for instance (these sceptics ask) can I know that my experiences are not produced in me by a powerful demon (or, in a modern twist on that traditional Cartesian scenario, by a supercomputer)? This volume, originating from the research project on Basic Knowledge recently concluded at the Northern Institute of Philosophy, presents new essays on scepticism about the senses written by some of the most prominent contemporary epistemologists. They approach the sceptical challenge by discussing such topics as the conditions for perceptual justification, the existence of a non-evidential kind of warrant and the extent of one's evidence, the epistemology of inference, the relations between justification, probability and certainty, the relevance of subjective appearances to the epistemology of perception, the role that broadly pragmatic considerations play in epistemic justification, the contents of perception, and the function of attention. In all these cases, the papers show how philosophical progress on foundational issues can improve our understanding of and possibly afford a solution to a historically prominent problem like scepticism.

Meaning and Justification. An Internalist Theory of Meaning

Author : Gabriele Usberti
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031246055
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book Meaning and Justification. An Internalist Theory of Meaning written by Gabriele Usberti and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume develops a theory of meaning and a semantics for both mathematical and empirical sentences inspired to Chomsky’s internalism, namely to a view of semantics as the study of the relations of language not with external reality but with internal, or mental, reality. In the first part a theoretical notion of justification for a sentence A is defined, by induction on the complexity of A; intuitively, justifications are conceived as cognitive states of a particular kind. The main source of inspiration for this part is Heyting’s explanation of the intuitionistic meaning of logical constants. In the second part the theory is applied to the solution of several foundational problems in the theory of meaning and epistemology, such as Frege’s puzzle, Mates’ puzzle about synonymy, the paradox of analysis, Kripke’s puzzle about belief, the de re/de dicto distinction, the specific/non-specific distinction, Gettier’s problems, the paradox of knowability, and the characterization of truth. On a more general philosophical level, throughout the book the author develops a tight critique of the neo-verificationism of Dummett, Prawitz and Martin-Löf, and defends a mentalist interpretation of intuitionism.

A Structural Account of Mathematics

Author : Charles S. Chihara
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191533106
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book A Structural Account of Mathematics written by Charles S. Chihara and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2003-11-20 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Chihara's new book develops and defends a structural view of the nature of mathematics, and uses it to explain a number of striking features of mathematics that have puzzled philosophers for centuries. The view is used to show that, in order to understand how mathematical systems are applied in science and everyday life, it is not necessary to assume that its theorems either presuppose mathematical objects or are even true. Chihara builds upon his previous work, in which he presented a new system of mathematics, the constructibility theory, which did not make reference to, or presuppose, mathematical objects. Now he develops the project further by analysing mathematical systems currently used by scientists to show how such systems are compatible with this nominalistic outlook. He advances several new ways of undermining the heavily discussed indispensability argument for the existence of mathematical objects made famous by Willard Quine and Hilary Putnam. And Chihara presents a rationale for the nominalistic outlook that is quite different from those generally put forward, which he maintains have led to serious misunderstandings. A Structural Account of Mathematics will be required reading for anyone working in this field.

Pyrrhonian Reflections on Knowledge and Justification

Author : Robert J. Fogelin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019802505X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Pyrrhonian Reflections on Knowledge and Justification written by Robert J. Fogelin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1994-09-22 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work, written from a neo-Pyrrhonian perspective, is an examination of contemporary theories of knowledge and justification. It takes ideas primarily found in Sextus Empiricus's Outlines of Pyrrhonism, restates them in a modern idiom, and then asks whether any contemporary theory of knowledge meets the challenges they raise. The first part, entitled "Gettier and the Problem of Knowledge," attempts to rescue our ordinary concept of knowledge from those philosophers who have assigned burdens to it that it cannot bear. Properly understood, Fogelin shows that the concept of knowledge is unproblematic. The second part of this study, called "Agrippa and the Problem of Justification," examines Agrippa's contribution to Pyrrhonism, a systematic reduction of its procedures which came to be known as the "Five Modes Leading to the Suspension of Belief." These modes present a completely general procedure for refuting any claim a dogmatist might make. Though largely unnoticed, there is, according to Fogelin, an uncanny resemblance between problems posed by Agrippa's "Five Modes" and those that contemporary epistemologists address under the heading of a theory of justification. Fogelin examines the strongest contemporary theories of justification--in both foundationalist and anti-foundationalist forms. The conclusion is that recent philosophical writings on justification have made no significant progress in responding to the Pyrrhonian problems these writings have addressed.

Justification Without Awareness

Author : Michael Bergmann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199275742
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Justification Without Awareness written by Michael Bergmann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-18 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Bergmann provides a decisive refutation of internalism and a sustained defense of externalism, developing his theory of justification by imposing both a proper function and a no-defeater requirement.