New Issues in Epistemological Disjunctivism

New Issues in Epistemological Disjunctivism
Author: Casey Doyle
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2019-04-29
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1351603558

This is the first volume dedicated solely to the topic of epistemological disjunctivism. The original essays in this volume, written by leading and up-and-coming scholars on the topic, are divided into three thematic sections. The first set of chapters addresses the historical background of epistemological disjunctivism. It features essays on ancient epistemology, Immanuel Kant, J.L. Austin, Edmund Husserl, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. The second section tackles a number contemporary issues related to epistemological disjunctivism, including its relationship with perceptual disjunctivism, radical skepticism, and reasons for belief. Finally, the third group of essays extends the framework of epistemological disjunctivism to other forms of knowledge, such as testimonial knowledge, knowledge of other minds, and self-knowledge. Epistemological Disjunctivism is a timely collection that engages with an increasingly important topic in philosophy. It will appeal to researches and graduate students working in epistemology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of perception.

Epistemological Disjunctivism

Epistemological Disjunctivism
Author: Duncan Pritchard
Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2012-09-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199557918

Duncan Pritchard offers an account of perceptual knowledge, arguing that it is paradigmatically constituted by true belief that enjoys rational support which is reflectively accessible to the agent. This resolves the issue between intermalism and externalism, and poses a radical challenge to contemporary epistemology.

Epistemic Luck

Epistemic Luck
Author: Duncan Pritchard
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2005
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 019928038X

Offering a philosophical examination of the concept of luck and its relationship to knowledge, this text demonstrates how a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between knowledge and luck can enable us to see past some of the most intractable disputes in the contemporary theory of knowledge.

Epistemic Angst

Epistemic Angst
Author: Duncan Pritchard
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2019-01-08
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0691183430

Epistemic Angst offers a completely new solution to the ancient philosophical problem of radical skepticism—the challenge of explaining how it is possible to have knowledge of a world external to us. Duncan Pritchard argues that the key to resolving this puzzle is to realize that it is composed of two logically distinct problems, each requiring its own solution. He then puts forward solutions to both problems. To that end, he offers a new reading of Wittgenstein's account of the structure of rational evaluation and demonstrates how this provides an elegant solution to one aspect of the skeptical problem. Pritchard also revisits the epistemological disjunctivist proposal that he developed in previous work and shows how it can effectively handle the other aspect of the problem. Finally, he argues that these two antiskeptical positions, while superficially in tension with each other, are not only compatible but also mutually supporting. The result is a comprehensive and distinctive resolution to the problem of radical skepticism, one that challenges many assumptions in contemporary epistemology.

Disjunctivism

Disjunctivism
Author: Matthew Soteriou
Publisher: New Problems of Philosophy
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780415686211

Including chapter summaries, annotated further reading and a glossary this is an ideal starting point for anyone studying disjunctivism for the first time as well as more advanced students and researchers.

Disjunctivism

Disjunctivism
Author: Adrian Haddock
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2008-01-31
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199231540

Disjunctivism is the focus of a lively debate spanning the philosophy of perception, epistemology, and the philosophy of action. Adrian Haddock and Fiona Macpherson present 17 specially written essays, which examine the different forms of disjunctivism and explore the connections between them.

The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Evidence

The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Evidence
Author: Maria Lasonen-Aarnio
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 715
Release: 2023-12-19
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1317373898

What one can know depends on one’s evidence. Good scientific theories are supported by evidence. Our experiences provide us with evidence. Any sort of inquiry involves the seeking of evidence. It is irrational to believe contrary to your evidence. For these reasons and more, evidence is one of the most fundamental notions in the field of epistemology and is emerging as a crucial topic across academic disciplines. The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Evidence is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems, and debates in this exciting subject and is the first major volume of its kind. Comprising forty chapters by an international team of contributors the handbook is divided into six clear parts: The Nature of Evidence Evidence and Probability The Social Epistemology of Evidence Sources of Evidence Evidence and Justification Evidence in the Disciplines The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Evidence is essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy of science and epistemology, and will also be of interest to those in related disciplines across the humanities and social sciences, such as law, religion, and history.

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.

Spectator in the Cartesian Theater

Spectator in the Cartesian Theater
Author: Peter Slezak
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2023-08-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1666923761

A range of seemingly unrelated problems at the forefront of controversy about consciousness, language, and vision, among others, have a deep connection with one another that has gone unnoticed. This book suggests that this mistake arises not from what is put into a theory but rather from what is missing.

Ethno-Epistemology

Ethno-Epistemology
Author: Masaharu Mizumoto
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2020-05-17
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1000082482

This volume features new perspectives on the implications of cross-linguistic and cultural diversity for epistemology. It brings together philosophers, linguists, and scholars working on knowledge traditions to advance work in epistemology that moves beyond the Anglophone sphere. The first group of chapters provide evidence of cross-linguistic or cultural diversity relevant to epistemology and discuss its possible implications. These essays defend epistemic pluralism based on Sanskrit data as a commitment to pluralism about epistemic stances, analyze the use of two Japanese knowledge verbs in relation to knowledge how, explore the Confucian notion of justification, and surveys cultural differences about the testimonial knowledge. The second group of chapters defends "core monism"—which claims that despite the cross-linguistic diversity of knowledge verbs, there is certain core epistemological meaning shared by all languages—from both a Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) and skeptical perspective. The third cluster of essays considers the implications of cultural diversity for epistemology based on anthropological studies. These chapters explore real disparities in folk epistemology across cultures. Finally, the last two chapters discuss methods or perspectives to unify epistemology despite and based on the diversity of folk intuitions and epistemological concepts. Ethno-Epistemology is an essential resource for philosophers working in epistemology and comparative philosophy, as well as linguists and cultural anthropologists interested in the cultural-linguistic diversity of knowledge traditions.