Hilary Kornblith, On Reflection
... Hilary Kornblith thinks that reflection is overrated. His is the minority view. Though few may sing reflection’s praises aloud, it occupies a central and, some think, indispensable role in much of our theorizing across philosophy. It is a familiar, almost commonsensical, thought that what distinguis ...
... Hilary Kornblith thinks that reflection is overrated. His is the minority view. Though few may sing reflection’s praises aloud, it occupies a central and, some think, indispensable role in much of our theorizing across philosophy. It is a familiar, almost commonsensical, thought that what distinguis ...
Truth, Value and Epistemic Expressivism
... beliefs backed by reasons and supported by the evidence. Yet these more practical and immediate goals only make sense in the light of our commitment to the value of truth. If we were not committed to the goodness of believing what is true, then the pursuit of justification would be unimportant. We p ...
... beliefs backed by reasons and supported by the evidence. Yet these more practical and immediate goals only make sense in the light of our commitment to the value of truth. If we were not committed to the goodness of believing what is true, then the pursuit of justification would be unimportant. We p ...
Explaining the disquotational principle
... If S means p and a speaker understands and sincerely accepts S, then the speaker believes p.2 Given the necessity of this principle (about which more below), we can formulate one clear version of the intuitive question about the relationship between linguistic meaning and the content of belief by as ...
... If S means p and a speaker understands and sincerely accepts S, then the speaker believes p.2 Given the necessity of this principle (about which more below), we can formulate one clear version of the intuitive question about the relationship between linguistic meaning and the content of belief by as ...
Chapter 9 Not Knowing Mar. `10 “Ignorance is the necessary
... honoured, inputs to our reasoning devices are free from the taint of ignorance (or in a softer version, lack of reason to believe). There are two interesting kinds of case which give the lie to thinking so. In each, ignorance plays a crucial and cognitively virtuous role. In the one, it is a conditi ...
... honoured, inputs to our reasoning devices are free from the taint of ignorance (or in a softer version, lack of reason to believe). There are two interesting kinds of case which give the lie to thinking so. In each, ignorance plays a crucial and cognitively virtuous role. In the one, it is a conditi ...
Abstract expressionism and the communication
... nominalist abstract expressionism: that is, abstract expressionism coupled with the denial that there are any mathematical objects. Abstract expressionism immediately faces a serious challenge. It is arguable that mathematics in useful in science in several ways: for instance, it enables us to draw ...
... nominalist abstract expressionism: that is, abstract expressionism coupled with the denial that there are any mathematical objects. Abstract expressionism immediately faces a serious challenge. It is arguable that mathematics in useful in science in several ways: for instance, it enables us to draw ...
1 What is Scientific Progress? Lessons from Scientific Practice Moti
... The medical sciences are mutually interdependent. Progress in one field is often closely associated with development in others. The rise in one branch of science can often have its origin in a recently made analysis within another sphere, and yet it may appear at the first glance that the former is ...
... The medical sciences are mutually interdependent. Progress in one field is often closely associated with development in others. The rise in one branch of science can often have its origin in a recently made analysis within another sphere, and yet it may appear at the first glance that the former is ...
The Evidence of the Senses
... The point of the disjunctive conception is that if one undergoes an experience that belongs on the ‘good’ side of the disjunction, that warrants one in believing—indeed presents one with an opportunity to know—that things are as the experience reveals them as being. When one’s perceptual faculties ‘ ...
... The point of the disjunctive conception is that if one undergoes an experience that belongs on the ‘good’ side of the disjunction, that warrants one in believing—indeed presents one with an opportunity to know—that things are as the experience reveals them as being. When one’s perceptual faculties ‘ ...
The `normativity of content` thesis is not about the normativity of
... The argument for CUCA then proceeds as follows: given the latter two premises, understanding a content attribution has to go via understanding the concept of belief. This is because understanding a content attribution (according to the third premise) requires understanding the concept of a contentfu ...
... The argument for CUCA then proceeds as follows: given the latter two premises, understanding a content attribution has to go via understanding the concept of belief. This is because understanding a content attribution (according to the third premise) requires understanding the concept of a contentfu ...
Game Theory, Game Situations and Rational Expectations: A
... state w, i considers possible to be at w’. I denote Ri(.) the corresponding possibility operator where Ri(w) is the set of states w’ that are accessible for i at w. The players’ posterior probabilities pi,w(.) are accordingly defined over Ri(.) using Bayes’ rule. The tuple I: < , {pi, Ri}iN > is t ...
... state w, i considers possible to be at w’. I denote Ri(.) the corresponding possibility operator where Ri(w) is the set of states w’ that are accessible for i at w. The players’ posterior probabilities pi,w(.) are accordingly defined over Ri(.) using Bayes’ rule. The tuple I: < , {pi, Ri}iN > is t ...
Logical Theories of Intention and the Database Perspective
... When considering how to formalize intention—or any other complex natural notion—it is useful to consider up front the yardsticks by which one would evaluate the theory. These in turn are dictated more deeply by the sort of relevance one seeks for the theory. One type is psychological relevance. This ...
... When considering how to formalize intention—or any other complex natural notion—it is useful to consider up front the yardsticks by which one would evaluate the theory. These in turn are dictated more deeply by the sort of relevance one seeks for the theory. One type is psychological relevance. This ...
Can Activist Scholars Learn Research Methods from Rumi
... faced prospects of living without pensions, workers of living without wages, and children growing up with reduced funding for education. Yet everyone turned to the very economists to bail them out of their situations. Further away daisy bombs, cluster bombs, phosphorous bombs, biological weapons, la ...
... faced prospects of living without pensions, workers of living without wages, and children growing up with reduced funding for education. Yet everyone turned to the very economists to bail them out of their situations. Further away daisy bombs, cluster bombs, phosphorous bombs, biological weapons, la ...
Rene Descartes
... Review the entire chain of thinking to ensure nothing is omitted. The first rule is probably the best known, as it is boldly expressed in the opening paragraphs of Descartes‟ Meditations on First Philosophy, perhaps the most important book of the modern period. Descartes hopes to secure a firm found ...
... Review the entire chain of thinking to ensure nothing is omitted. The first rule is probably the best known, as it is boldly expressed in the opening paragraphs of Descartes‟ Meditations on First Philosophy, perhaps the most important book of the modern period. Descartes hopes to secure a firm found ...
An Evaluation of Paul Churchland`s Responses to The Knowledge
... The first proposition is a description of what Thomas Nagel famously called that ‘what-is-itlike-ness’ of certain qualitative mental states and the second is a description of the an extra-mental object itself. Notice that although (A) might entail (B), the two are certainly not the same statement an ...
... The first proposition is a description of what Thomas Nagel famously called that ‘what-is-itlike-ness’ of certain qualitative mental states and the second is a description of the an extra-mental object itself. Notice that although (A) might entail (B), the two are certainly not the same statement an ...
The origin of concepts and the nature of knowledge revision boo
... being marked by a difference of ‘forcefulness’ and ‘vivacity’, so that impressions relate roughly to ‘feeling’ (or ‘sensing’) and ideas to ‘thinking’. Hume argues that ideas are faint copies of original sense impressions (Hume’s Copy Principle). For example, my ideas of whiteness and coldness are co ...
... being marked by a difference of ‘forcefulness’ and ‘vivacity’, so that impressions relate roughly to ‘feeling’ (or ‘sensing’) and ideas to ‘thinking’. Hume argues that ideas are faint copies of original sense impressions (Hume’s Copy Principle). For example, my ideas of whiteness and coldness are co ...
Epistemology Dehumanized
... is evidence for the former. We seldom call the premises of a valid deductive argument evidence for its conclusion, even if they are evident and the argument has a form as simple as modus ponens. Rather, we speak of evidence when what we want to know is neither evident nor seen to follow from anythin ...
... is evidence for the former. We seldom call the premises of a valid deductive argument evidence for its conclusion, even if they are evident and the argument has a form as simple as modus ponens. Rather, we speak of evidence when what we want to know is neither evident nor seen to follow from anythin ...
Intuition, Entitlement and the Epistemology of Logical Laws
... regarded as no stronger than the grounds I have for confidence that I counted correctly, and that my senses and memory were accordingly functioning as required throughout. Yet I will have done nothing—we may suppose—to justify my confidence in those specific presuppositions. How then can I responsib ...
... regarded as no stronger than the grounds I have for confidence that I counted correctly, and that my senses and memory were accordingly functioning as required throughout. Yet I will have done nothing—we may suppose—to justify my confidence in those specific presuppositions. How then can I responsib ...
M METHO ODOL LOGY
... and truth are intrinsically related to the idea of facts. As science bases it’s knowledge on a systematic collection, observation, interpretation and analysis of facts, various scientific disciplines have engaged themselves in theorizing their subject matter as facts. E.H.Carr in his book What is Hi ...
... and truth are intrinsically related to the idea of facts. As science bases it’s knowledge on a systematic collection, observation, interpretation and analysis of facts, various scientific disciplines have engaged themselves in theorizing their subject matter as facts. E.H.Carr in his book What is Hi ...
Responsibilism and the Analytic-Sociological Debate in Social
... foundationalist pyramid has no ultimate foundations, and the coherentist raft must inevitably find itself adrift. Faced with this impasse, epistemologists might well see a potentially fruitful approach in some version of the ‘reliabilism’ proposed in a recent paper as a better route to extablishing ...
... foundationalist pyramid has no ultimate foundations, and the coherentist raft must inevitably find itself adrift. Faced with this impasse, epistemologists might well see a potentially fruitful approach in some version of the ‘reliabilism’ proposed in a recent paper as a better route to extablishing ...
View/Open - Cadair - Aberystwyth University
... also for a long-lasting tradition in the philosophy of knowledge, which Richard Rorty (1979) critiqued as the “truth as correspondence” theory of knowledge, and which is central to Foundationalism itself. Put in simplified terms, meta-epistemic Foundationalism is the belief that human knowledge is p ...
... also for a long-lasting tradition in the philosophy of knowledge, which Richard Rorty (1979) critiqued as the “truth as correspondence” theory of knowledge, and which is central to Foundationalism itself. Put in simplified terms, meta-epistemic Foundationalism is the belief that human knowledge is p ...
PDF - Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics
... relationship between the striking of a Geiger counter and radioactivity. If S lacks this further belief he may be said to fail to be justified in believing that p.27 We may therefore need to specify the justification-condition: (J)* S’s belief that p is justified if S has at least one more belief th ...
... relationship between the striking of a Geiger counter and radioactivity. If S lacks this further belief he may be said to fail to be justified in believing that p.27 We may therefore need to specify the justification-condition: (J)* S’s belief that p is justified if S has at least one more belief th ...
1st Prize: Cherry Dicko
... or secondary cases’. Most would consider propositional knowledge to be most relevant to informed consent. However, the combination of types of knowledge needed in informed consent depends on context. In relation to Brexit, O’Neill says campaigners ‘did not provide the basic means for voters to judge ...
... or secondary cases’. Most would consider propositional knowledge to be most relevant to informed consent. However, the combination of types of knowledge needed in informed consent depends on context. In relation to Brexit, O’Neill says campaigners ‘did not provide the basic means for voters to judge ...
John Locke and the Changing Ideal of Scientific Knowledge
... Those long chains of reasoning,simple and easy as they are, of which geometriciansmake use in order to arrive at the most difficultdemonstrations, had caused me to imagine that all those things which fall under the cognizance of man might very likely be mutuallyrelated in the same fashion; and that, ...
... Those long chains of reasoning,simple and easy as they are, of which geometriciansmake use in order to arrive at the most difficultdemonstrations, had caused me to imagine that all those things which fall under the cognizance of man might very likely be mutuallyrelated in the same fashion; and that, ...
cognitive synergy: a universal principle for feasible
... useful indirectly in calculating these probability estimates, via providing new concepts that can be used to make useful inference trails more compact and hence easier to construct. The key role of attentional knowledge in the overall functioning of intelligent systems as described by CST must be em ...
... useful indirectly in calculating these probability estimates, via providing new concepts that can be used to make useful inference trails more compact and hence easier to construct. The key role of attentional knowledge in the overall functioning of intelligent systems as described by CST must be em ...
Phronomoi Across Cultures: A Checklist
... arguable, through to “within the ball park” and the merely “can’t be completely dismissed”). More needs to be said within Analytical Philosophy about these beliefs that impact upon our possession of truth and yet lack the empirical verifiability to count as solid science. For the time being scientif ...
... arguable, through to “within the ball park” and the merely “can’t be completely dismissed”). More needs to be said within Analytical Philosophy about these beliefs that impact upon our possession of truth and yet lack the empirical verifiability to count as solid science. For the time being scientif ...
Introduction: the growth of ignorance?
... While each of the contributors sets out to show the underestimated value of local knowledges, none of them however indulge in the (singularly western) romantic fantasy of the desirability, even were it possible, of a return to native wisdom mysteriously in touch with nature. Rather the stress is on ...
... While each of the contributors sets out to show the underestimated value of local knowledges, none of them however indulge in the (singularly western) romantic fantasy of the desirability, even were it possible, of a return to native wisdom mysteriously in touch with nature. Rather the stress is on ...