Knowledge and belief
"Since Plato, knowledge has been taken to entail justified true belief. On this view of knowledge, Plato's question as to why knowledge is more valuable than true belief must be answered in part by explaining the value of justified belief. An attractive explanation is that justified belief is belief of a sort likely to be true--an externalist account. Opposed to externalism is the internalist view that justification must be accessible to the subject or constituted by the subject's epistemic per…
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- Full title :Knowledge and belief / Frederick F. Schmitt.
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"Since Plato, knowledge has been taken to entail justified true belief. On this view of knowledge, Plato's question as to why knowledge is more valuable than true belief must be answered in part by explaining the value of justified belief. An attractive explanation is that justified belief is belief of a sort likely to be true--an externalist account. Opposed to externalism is the internalist view that justification must be accessible to the subject or constituted by the subject's epistemic perspective. This book explores the nature and value of knowledge and justified belief by examining the debate between externalism and internalism." "The author argues against the popular view that internalism is the historically dominant epistemology by examining closely the epistemological principles that underlie the treatment of skepticism in Plato, the Academic and Pyrrhonian skeptics, Descartes and Hume. He then develops a sustained detailed argument against many forms of internalism in favor of an externalist, reliabilist epistemology. His version of reliabilism, though strictly externalist, accommodates and explains the most durable intuitions alleged to support internalism. He offers a solution to the generality problem for reliabilism and responds to a great many common objections to the view." "Knowledge and Belief assumes no knowledge of epistemology or its history. Readers of philosophy will find this an excellent introduction to ancient and modern epistemology, and the systematic study of the internalist and externalist debate is the first of its kind."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Publication Date:1991.
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- Publisher(s):Routledge
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1991.
The Physical Object
- Description:278 pages.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0415033179, 9780415033176
- oclc:ocn123236895
- LC Classification:BD215
- Dewey Decimal:121/.6
Table of Contents
Introduction: Knowledge, Justification, and True Belief -- I. Greek Skepticism -- 1. Plato's skepticism in the Theaetetus -- 2. Academic skepticism -- 3. Pyrrhonian skepticism -- II. Descartes' Skepticism -- 1. The antecedent skeptical challenge -- 2. The validation of reason -- 3. Does justified belief require an answer to antecedent skepticism? -- III. Hume's Skepticism -- 1. Hume's reliabilism -- 2. Skepticism with regard to the senses -- or rather, imagination -- 3. Hume's positive epistemology: strength, naturalness, and adaptiveness -- 4. Hume's answer to consequent skepticism -- IV. Accessibility Internalism -- 1. The deontic argument for accessibility internalism -- 2. Against accessibility internalism -- 3. The fairly direct accessibility of reasons -- V. Perspectival Internalism, Mental Internalism, and Epistemically Responsible Belief -- 1. The responsibility argument for perspectival and mental internalism -- 2. The vat argument for mental internalism -- VI. Reliability, Relevant Processes, and Metaprocesses -- 1. Relevant processes -- 2. Metaprocesses -- VII. Justification and Evaluation -- 1. Does justified belief require positive evaluation? -- 2. Is justified belie…
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