Epistemic Entitlement

Author : Peter J. Graham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191022500
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Epistemic Entitlement written by Peter J. Graham and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-19 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most of the twentieth century, philosophers have explored the nature and extent of our knowledge-especially our knowledge of the world grounded in sense-perceptual experience. Can we be sure that our experience of the world is enough to ground our knowledge of an external reality? Are our everyday beliefs about our world warranted well enough for knowledge? What if we're all in The Matrix? This volume collects cutting-edge essays, written by leading philosophers, which address these fundamental questions about our place in the world. Through sustained reflection on two kinds of warrants—entitlements and justifications—they all seek to understand the nature and extent of our knowledge. Even if we were not able to justify our knowledge of the external world, we are nevertheless entitled to our view of external reality.

Author : H. Matthiessen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137414987
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Epistemic Entitlement written by H. Matthiessen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-09 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What entitles you to claims about your perceivable environment? Matthiessen suggests that it is neither your experience, nor the reliability of your cognitive processes, but rather your being in the right kind of perceptual situation.

Author : H. Matthiessen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137414987
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Epistemic Entitlement written by H. Matthiessen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-09 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What entitles you to claims about your perceivable environment? Matthiessen suggests that it is neither your experience, nor the reliability of your cognitive processes, but rather your being in the right kind of perceptual situation.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004465537
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Non-Evidentialist Epistemology written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-07-19 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it possible for belief or acceptance to be epistemically justified or rational without evidence? Non-evidentialism says, “Yes”. This original edited collection explores the tenability of non-evidentialism as a response to epistemological scepticism and examines potential applications within social psychology, psychiatry, and mathematics.

Author : Andrew Cullison
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 147258578X
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bloomsbury Companion to Epistemology written by Andrew Cullison and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For anyone looking to better understand the topics at the centre of contemporary epistemology, The Bloomsbury Companion to Epistemology presents a valuable guide. This up-to-date Companion covers all the fundamental questions asked by epidemiologists today - areas that have continued to attract interest historically as well as topics that have emerged more recently as active areas of research. Fifteen specially-commissioned essays from a respected team of experts reveal where important work continues to be done in the area and the new directions the field is taking, such as: • Foundationalism by Daniel Howard-Snyder • Coherentism by Jonathan Kvanvig • Proper Functionalism by Kenneth Boyce and Alvin Plantinga • Evidentialism by Richard Feldman and Andrew Cullison • Experimental Epistemology by James R. Beebe Clearly written and featuring a detailed list of resources, glossary and a fully annotated bibliography, The Bloomsbury Companion to Epistemology introduces some of the most exciting topics in contemporary analytic philosophy.

Author : Kate Manne
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 1984826557
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Entitled written by Kate Manne and published by Crown. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An urgent exploration of men’s entitlement and how it serves to police and punish women, from the acclaimed author of Down Girl “Kate Manne is a thrilling and provocative feminist thinker. Her work is indispensable.”—Rebecca Traister NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE ATLANTIC In this bold and stylish critique, Cornell philosopher Kate Manne offers a radical new framework for understanding misogyny. Ranging widely across the culture, from Harvey Weinstein and the Brett Kavanaugh hearings to “Cat Person” and the political misfortunes of Elizabeth Warren, Manne’s book shows how privileged men’s sense of entitlement—to sex, yes, but more insidiously to admiration, care, bodily autonomy, knowledge, and power—is a pervasive social problem with often devastating consequences. In clear, lucid prose, Manne argues that male entitlement can explain a wide array of phenomena, from mansplaining and the undertreatment of women’s pain to mass shootings by incels and the seemingly intractable notion that women are “unelectable.” Moreover, Manne implicates each of us in toxic masculinity: It’s not just a product of a few bad actors; it’s something we all perpetuate, conditioned as we are by the social and cultural mores of our time. The only way to combat it, she says, is to expose the flaws in our default modes of thought while enabling women to take up space, say their piece, and muster resistance to the entitled attitudes of the men around them. With wit and intellectual fierceness, Manne sheds new light on gender and power and offers a vision of a world in which women are just as entitled as men to our collective care and concern.

Author : Sanford Goldberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198793677
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To the Best of Our Knowledge written by Sanford Goldberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sanford C. Goldberg argues in this volume that epistemic normativity - the sort of normativity implicated in assessments of whether a belief amounts to knowledge - is grounded in the things we properly expect of one another as epistemic subjects. In developing this claim Goldberg argues that epistemic norms and standards themselves are generated by the expectations that arise out of our profound and ineliminable dependence on one another for what we know of the world. The expectations in question are those through which we hold each other accountable to standards of both (epistemic) reliability and (epistemic) responsibility. In arguing for this Goldberg aims to honor the insights of both internalist and externalist approaches to epistemic justification. The resulting theory has far-reaching implications not only for the theory of epistemic normativity, but also for the nature of epistemic assessment itself, as well as for our understanding of epistemic defeat, epistemic justification, epistemic responsibility, and the various social dimensions of knowledge.

Author : Martin Kusch
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199251371
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knowledge by Agreement written by Martin Kusch and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2004 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowledge by Agreement defends the ideas that knowledge is a social status (like money, or marriage), and that knowledge is primarily the possession of groups rather than individuals. Part I develops a new theory of testimony. It breaks with the traditional view according to which testimony is not, except accidentally, a generative source of knowledge. One important consequence of the new theory is a rejection of attempts to globally justify trust in the words of others. Part II proposes a communitarian theory of empirical knowledge. Martin Kusch argues that empirical belief can acquire the status of knowledge only by being shared with others, and that all empirical beliefs presuppose social institutions. As a result all knowledge is essentially political. Part III defends some of the controversial premises and consequences of Parts I and II: the community-dependence of normativity, epistemological and semantic relativism, anti-realism, and a social conception of objectivity. Martin Kusch's bold approach to epistemology is a challenge to philosophy and will arouse interest in the wider academic world.

Author : Dominique Kuenzle
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110525453
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Refurbishing Epistemology written by Dominique Kuenzle and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though important developments within 20th and 21st century philosophy have widened the scope of epistemology, this has not yet resulted in a systematic meta-epistemological debate about epistemology’s aims, methods, and criteria of success. Ideas such as the methodology of reflective equilibrium, the proposal to "naturalize" epistemology, constructivist impulses fuelling the "sociology of scientific knowledge", pragmatist calls for taking into account the practical point of epistemic evaluations, as well as feminist criticism of the abstract and individualist assumptions built into traditional epistemology are widely discussed, but they have not typically resulted in the call for, let alone the construction of, a suitable meta-epistemological framework. This book motivates and elaborates such a new meta-epistemology. It provides a pragmatist, social and functionalist account of epistemic states that offers the conceptual space for revised or even replaced epistemic concepts. This is what it means to "refurbish epistemology": The book assesses conceptual tools in relation to epistemology’s functionally defined conceptual space, responsive to both intra-epistemic considerations and political and moral values.

Author : Sanford C. Goldberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019885644X
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foundations and Applications of Social Epistemology written by Sanford C. Goldberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-27 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects twelve essays by Sanford C. Goldberg on the topic of social epistemology. The collection falls into two halves: the first half develops a proposal for a programme for social epistemology, its animating vision, foundational questions, and core concepts; the other half focuses on applications of this programme to particular topics. Goldberg characterizes the research programme as the exploration of the epistemic significance of other minds. This programme is dedicated to an examination of the various ways in which we depend epistemically on others, and to describe the proper way to evaluate beliefs according to the sort of dependence they exhibit. It thus provides the basis for identifying and characterizing various dysfunctions of our epistemic communities. The programme is put into practice by exploring such topics as the epistemic agency exhibited in inquiry, the practices that constitute news coverage, the basis for allegations of what we or others should have known, how reliance on another's testimony contrasts with reliance on an instrument, our reliance on others as consumers of testimony, and the epistemic significance of non-epistemic social norms--moral, political, professional, or relationship-based.