AbstractRobert Sinclair’s Quine, Conceptual Pragmatism, and the
Analytic-Synthetic Distinction persuasively argues that Quine’s epistemology was
deeply influenced by C. I. Lewis’s pragmatism. Sinclair’s account raises the
question why Quine himself frequently downplayed Lewis’s influence. Looking
back, Quine has always said that Rudolf Carnap was his “greatest teacher” and
that his 1933 meeting wi... hiện toàn bộ
AbstractIn a recent paper, Jie Gao (Synthese 194:1901–17, 2017) has argued that
there are acceptance-based counterexamples to the knowledge norm for practical
reasoning (KPR). KPR tells us that we may only rely on known propositions in
practical reasoning, yet there are cases of practical reasoning in which we seem
to permissibly rely on merely accepted propositions, which fail to constitute
knowl... hiện toàn bộ
AbstractIn this paper, I examine one central strand of Lackey’s The Epistemology
of Groups, namely her account of group justified belief and the puzzle cases she
uses to develop it. Her puzzle cases involve a group of museum guards most of
whom justifiably believe a certain claim but do so on different bases.
Consideration of these cases leads her to hold that a group justifiably believes
p if and... hiện toàn bộ