Justification and the Truth-Connection
Title | Justification and the Truth-Connection PDF eBook |
Author | Clayton Littlejohn |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 279 |
Release | 2012-06-07 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1107016126 |
Presents and defends a bold new approach to the ethics of belief and to resolving the internalism-externalism debate in epistemology.
Justification and the Truth-Connection
Title | Justification and the Truth-Connection PDF eBook |
Author | Clayton Littlejohn |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 279 |
Release | 2012-06-07 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1139510665 |
The internalism-externalism debate is one of the oldest debates in epistemology. Internalists assert that the justification of our beliefs can only depend on facts internal to us, while externalists insist that justification can depend on additional, for example environmental, factors. In this book Clayton Littlejohn proposes and defends a new strategy for resolving this debate. Focussing on the connections between practical and theoretical reason, he explores the question of whether the priority of the good to the right (in ethics) might be used to defend an epistemological version of consequentialism, and proceeds to formulate a new 'deontological externalist' view. His discussion is rich with insights and will be valuable for a wide range of readers in epistemology, ethics and practical reason.
Justification Without Awareness
Title | Justification Without Awareness PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Bergmann |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 267 |
Release | 2006-05-18 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0199275742 |
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.
Debating Christian Religious Epistemology
Title | Debating Christian Religious Epistemology PDF eBook |
Author | John M. DePoe |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 265 |
Release | 2020-02-06 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1350062766 |
What does it mean to believe in God? What passes as evidence for belief in God? What issues arise when considering the rationality of belief in God? Debating Christian Religious Epistemology introduces core questions in the philosophy of religion by bringing five competing viewpoints on the knowledge of God into critical dialogue with one another. Each chapter introduces an epistemic viewpoint, providing an overview of its main arguments and explaining why it justifies belief. The validity of that viewpoint is then explored and tested in a critical response from an expert in an opposing tradition. Featuring a wide range of different philosophical positions, traditions and methods, this introduction: - Covers classical evidentialism, phenomenal conservatism, proper functionalism, covenantal epistemology and traditions-based perspectivalism - Draws on MacIntyre's account of rationality and ideas from the Analytic and Conservatism traditions - Addresses issues in social epistemology - Considers the role of religious experience and religious texts Packed with lively debates, this is an ideal starting point for anyone interested in understanding the major positions in contemporary religious epistemology and how religious concepts and practices relate to belief and knowledge.
The Doctrine of Justification
Title | The Doctrine of Justification PDF eBook |
Author | James Buchanan |
Publisher | Ravenio Books |
Total Pages | 178 |
Release | 2013-02-17 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN |
James Buchanan (1804–1870) was a Scottish minister and theologian. He joined the Free Church of Scotland in 1843, and succeeded Thomas Chalmers as professor of systematic theology at the New College of the Free Church in Edinburgh in 1847, a post he held for twenty-one years. Buchanan's magnum opus was The Doctrine of Justification, which still has great value as a classic treatment of the article by which Martin Luther says the church stands or falls. He covers biblical, systematic, and historical ground in his work, but is never far from a warm-hearted evangelical delight in the doctrines he is expounding.
Epistemic Consequentialism
Title | Epistemic Consequentialism PDF eBook |
Author | Kristoffer Ahlström |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 344 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0198779682 |
An important issue in epistemology concerns the source of epistemic normativity. Epistemic consequentialism maintains that epistemic norms are genuine norms that are conducive to epistemic value. This volume presents the latest work on epistemic consequentialism by authors that are sympathetic to the view and those who are critical of it.--
Content and Justification
Title | Content and Justification PDF eBook |
Author | Paul A. Boghossian |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 371 |
Release | 2008-09-11 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0199292108 |
This volume presents a series of influential essays by Paul Boghossian on the theory of content and on its relation to the phenomenon of a priori knowledge. The essays are organized under four headings: the nature of content; content and self-knowledge; knowledge, content, and the a priori; and colour concepts.