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
AbstractHinge epistemology and Bayesianism are two prominent approaches in
contemporary epistemology, but the relationship between these approaches has not
been systematically studied. This paper formalizes the central commitments of
hinge epistemology in a Bayesian framework and argues for the following two
theses: (1) many of the types of claims that are treated as paradigmatic hinges
in the hin... hiện toàn bộ