Externalism, Self-Knowledge, and Skepticism

Externalism, Self-Knowledge, and Skepticism
Author: Sanford Goldberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2015-08-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1107063507

This collection of new essays explores the implications of semantic externalism for self-knowledge and skepticism.

Our Knowledge of the Internal World

Our Knowledge of the Internal World
Author: Robert Stalnaker
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2010-07
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199592039

Starting in the middle -- Epistemic possibilities and the knowledge argument -- Locating ourselves in the world -- Notes on models of self-locating belief -- Phenomenal and epistemic indistinguishability -- Acquaintance and essence -- Knowing what one is thinking -- After the fall.

Externalism about Knowledge

Externalism about Knowledge
Author: Luis R. G. Oliveira
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2023-08
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0198866747

Externalism about knowledge is thriving in contemporary epistemology. Nonetheless, externalism is too often caricatured as merely reliabilism, too often reduced to simply externalism about justification, and rarely considered as a cohesive family of related but importantly different views. Externalism About Knowledge addresses all of these issues by bringing new essays from leading externalist epistemologists working on seven different branches of this tradition: process reliabilism, tracking views, safety views, virtue epistemology, proper functionalism, naturalized epistemology, and knowledge first epistemology. This collection highlights their unity, their differences, their interconnections, and their most recent challenges, developments, and extensions.

Justification Without Awareness

Justification Without Awareness
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.

Externalism and Self-knowledge

Externalism and Self-knowledge
Author: Peter Ludlow
Publisher: Stanford Univ Center for the Study
Total Pages: 382
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781575861067

One of the most provocative projects in recent analytic philosophy has been the development of the doctrine of externalism, or, as it is often called, anti-individualism. While there is no agreement as to whether externalism is true or not, a number of recent investigations have begun to explore the question of what follows if it is true. One of the most interesting of these investigations thus far has been the question of whether externalism has consequences for the doctrine that we have authoritative, a priori self-knowledge of our mental states. The selected works presented in this volume, some previously published, some new, are representative of this debate and open up new questions and issues for philosophical investigation, including the connection between externalism, self-knowledge, epistemic warrant, and memory.

Semantic Externalism

Semantic Externalism
Author: Jesper Kallestrup
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2013-03
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1136819436

Semantic externalism is the view that the meanings of referring terms, and the contents of beliefs that are expressed by those terms, are not fully determined by factors internal to the speaker but are instead bound up with the environment. The debate about semantic externalism is one of the most important but difficult topics in philosophy of mind and language, and has consequences for our understanding of the role of social institutions and the physical environment in constituting language and the mind. In this long-needed book, Jesper Kallestrup provides an invaluable map of the problem. Beginning with a thorough introduction to the theories of descriptivism and referentialism and the work of Frege and Kripke, Kallestrup moves on to analyse Putnam’s Twin Earth argument, Burge’s arthritis argument and Davidson’s Swampman argument. He also discusses how semantic externalism is at the heart of important topics such as indexical thoughts, epistemological skepticism, self-knowledge, and mental causation. Including chapter summaries, a glossary of terms, and an annotated guide to further reading, Semantic Externalism an ideal guide for students studying philosophy of language and philosophy of mind.

Plato’s ›Theaetetus‹ Revisited

Plato’s ›Theaetetus‹ Revisited
Author: Beatriz Bossi
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2020-10-12
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3110715473

This book meets the need to revise the standard interpretations of an apparently aporetic dialogue, full of eloquent silences and tricky suggestions, as it explores, among many other topics, the dramatis personae, including Plato's self-references behind the scene and the role of Socrates on stage, the question of method and refutation and the way dialectics plays a part in the dialogue. More especifically, it contains a set of papers devoted to perception and Plato's criticism of Heraclitus and Protagoras. A section deals with the problem of the relation between knowledge and thinking, including the the aviary model and the possibility of error. It also emphasizes some positive contributions to the classical Platonic doctrines and his philosophy of education. The reception of the dialogue in antiquity and the medieval age closes the analysis. Representing different hermeneutical traditions, prestigious scholars engage with these issues in divergent ways, as they shed new light on a complex controversial work.

The Structure of Empirical Knowledge

The Structure of Empirical Knowledge
Author: Laurence BonJour
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1988-03-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0674262158

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.

Epistemic Justification

Epistemic Justification
Author: Laurence BonJour
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2003-04-22
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780631182849

Ever since Plato it has been thought that one knows only if one's belief hits the mark of truth and does so with adequate justification. The issues debated by Laurence BonJour and Ernest Sosa concern mostly the nature and conditions of such epistemic justification, and its place in our understanding of human knowledge. Presents central issues pertaining to internalism vs. externalism and foundationalism vs. virtue epistemology in the form of a philosophical debate. Introduces students to fundamental questions within epistemology while engaging in contemporary debates. Written by two of today’s foremost epistemologists. Includes an extensive bibliography.