Richard Swinburne offers an original treatment of a question at the heart of epistemology: what makes a belief rational, or justified in holding? He maps the rival accounts of philosophers on epistemic justification (''internalist'' and ''externalist''), arguing that they are really accounts of diff
Epistemic Justification and the Skeptical Challenge
โ Scribed by Hamid Vahid (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 245
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-3
Front Matter....Pages 5-6
Elements of a Theory of Justification....Pages 7-35
The Deontological Conception of Justification....Pages 36-59
The Internalism/Externalism Divide....Pages 60-82
Front Matter....Pages 83-84
The Problem of the Criterion....Pages 85-97
Universalizability and Closure....Pages 98-121
Skepticism and Underdetermination....Pages 122-138
Front Matter....Pages 139-140
Argument from the Principle of Charity....Pages 141-156
Argument from Epistemic Conservatism....Pages 157-180
Argument from Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE)....Pages 181-198
The Epistemological Significance of Transcendental Arguments....Pages 199-215
Back Matter....Pages 216-236
โฆ Subjects
Epistemology; Philosophy of Mind; History of Philosophy
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