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From:The Philosophical Review (Vol. 109, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed1. Diachronic Coherence in Epistemology It is obvious that we would not want to demand that an agent's beliefs at different times exhibit the same sort of consistency that we demand from an agent's simultaneous...
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From:American Philosophical Quarterly (Vol. 34, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedTestimony is a significant and common source of justification and knowledge, as well as an important concept in social epistemology, communication and the psychology of belief acquisition. Testimony is not a basic source...
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From:The Philosophical Review (Vol. 109, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedInternalists and externalists in epistemology continue to disagree about how best to understand epistemic concepts such as justification or warrant or knowledge.(1) But there has been some movement towards agreement....
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From:American Philosophical Quarterly (Vol. 31, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedCriticism of analytic epistemology's turn to nontraditional tasks is unwarranted, as it is concerned with the important problem of formulating a fallibilistic conception of epistemic good. Analytic epistemology involves...
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From:Philosophy East and West (Vol. 63, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe Digambara/Svetambara Dispute over the Nature of the Kevalin The most noticeable difference between the Digambara and Svetambara sects of Jainism is expressed by the very names of these ancient traditions....
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From:Journal of Psychology and Theology (Vol. 42, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn this paper, we scrutinize intellectual arrogance and intellectual humility through an evolutionary lens. Our basic thesis might be summarized as follows. Human cognition, though it partly transcends the natural...
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From:The Review of Metaphysics (Vol. 67, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBelief, Credence, and Pragmatic Encroachment, JACOB ROSS and MARK SCHROEDER This paper compares two alternative explanations of pragmatic encroachment on knowledge (that is, the claim that whether an agent knows that...
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From:Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society (Vol. 50, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe naturalized epistemologist's appeals to classical pragmatist epistemology are often used to justify (1) the rejection of idealized accounts of truth and (2) the acceptance what Putnam (2002) refers to as the...
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From:African Studies Quarterly (Vol. 12, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe prominent African philosopher Ifeanyi Menkiti is of the view that the African conception of personhood is decidedly communitarian. He argues, however, that although there are various ways of conceiving the...
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From:CLIO (Vol. 30, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedWe are mortal, our days are numbered. But our days are not to be numbered as we would number a growing pile of objects, as if each day is a discrete addendum to an already determined record. We experience our lives as...
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From:The Philosophical Review (Vol. 111, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIntuitively, in Train Case 1, you have good enough evidence to know that the train stops in Foxboro. You are epistemically justified in believing that proposition. (1) Intuitively, in Train Case 2, you do not have...
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From:Philosophy East and West (Vol. 53, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn what follows, I will argue that despite apparent differences and the association with two different schools of thought, the epistemology of Suhrawardi (Yahya ibn H. abash al-Suhrawardi) is essentially that of Ibn...
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From:Argumentation and Advocacy (Vol. 30, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWe have all witnessed debaters who, after misinterpreting a case and basing their attacks on that misinterpretation, and after having had the case subsequently re-explained to them, return claiming that their opponents...
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From:Contemporary Literature (Vol. 35, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedStanislaw Lem's major literary concerns, the limits of anthropomorphic science and narrative, are both evidenced in his novel 'The Invincible.' Lem attempts to educate his readers on the limits of science, as we conceive...
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From:Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (Vol. 10, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWe claim that the animate and inanimate conceptual categories represent evolutionarily adapted domain-specific knowledge systems that are subserved by distinct neural mechanisms, thereby allowing for their selective...
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From:Studies in the Novel (Vol. 50, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedFrances Burney committed several revolutionary acts in her lifetime. In 1778, she secretly published her first novel, Evelina, which was her "elopement, her rebellion, her declaration of independence" from her father...
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From:Papers on Language & Literature (Vol. 55, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe decolonization/decoloniality of the twenty-first century should not be confused with postmodernism and postcolonialism, which cascaded from the powerful Euro-North American academies as well as from the influence of...
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From:Informing Science: the International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline (Vol. 15) Peer-ReviewedIn the theory of knowledge, Nietzsche articulated the principle of perspectivism. Using a simplified example, this paper illustrates how changing the optical perspective dramatically changes the results of observations....
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From:Review of Constitutional Studies (Vol. 24, Issue 2)The apparent consensus among the proponents of proportionality, as Stephen Gardbaum has recently pointed out, is that the 'triumphantly successful' constitutional law framework has few, if any, normative limits. Central...
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From:The Tibet Journal (Vol. 33, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn the tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, there developed a unique strategy for studying Buddhist philosophy and logic. It is through this study of bsdus grwa (Collected Topics) logic where the dialectical rules of debate...