Problems for contrastive closure: resolved and regainedSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 163 - Trang 577-590 - 2011
Michael Hughes
The standard contextualist solution to the skeptical paradox is intended to provide a way to retain epistemic closure while avoiding the excessive modesty of radical skepticism and the immodesty of Moorean dogmatism. However, contextualism’s opponents charge that its solution suffers from epistemic immodesty comparable to Moorean dogmatism. According to the standard contextualist solution, all con...... hiện toàn bộ
Inquiry and trust: An epistemic balancing actSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - - 2024
Heather Rabenberg
It might initially appear impossible to inquire into whether p while trusting someone that p. At the very least, it might appear that doing so would be irrational. In this paper, I shall argue that things are not as they appear. Not only is it possible for a person to inquire into whether p while trusting someone that p, it is very often rational. Indeed, combining inquiry and trust in this way is...... hiện toàn bộ
Soames on Russell’s logic: a replySpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 139 - Trang 209-212 - 2007
Michael Kremer
In “What is History For?,” Scott Soames responds to criticisms of his treatment of Russell’s logic in volume 1 of his Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century. This note rebuts two of Soames’s replies, showing that a first-order presentation of Russell’s logic does not fit the argument of the Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy, and that Soames’s contextual definition of classes does no...... hiện toàn bộ
Bonjour’s DilemmaSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 131 - Trang 679-693 - 2006
Michael Bergmann