Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Charles Parsons, Protagoras and Hamid Vahid
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16 ideas
13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 1. Justification / a. Justification issues
19703
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Epistemic is normally marked out from moral or pragmatic justifications by its truth-goal [Vahid]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 3. Internal or External / a. Pro-internalism
19705
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'Mentalist' internalism seems to miss the main point, if it might not involve an agent's access [Vahid]
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19706
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Strong access internalism needs actual awareness; weak versions need possibility of access [Vahid]
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19707
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Maybe we need access to our justification, and also to know why it justifies [Vahid]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 3. Internal or External / b. Pro-externalism
19709
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Internalism in epistemology over-emphasises deliberation about beliefs [Vahid]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 1. External Justification
19704
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Externalism may imply that identical mental states might go with different justifications [Vahid]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 4. Tracking the Facts
19710
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With a counterfactual account of the causal theory, we get knowledge as tracking or sensitive to truth [Vahid]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 10. Anti External Justification
19711
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Externalism makes the acquisition of knowledge too easy? [Vahid]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 1. Scepticism
1545
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Protagoras was the first to claim that there are two contradictory arguments about everything [Protagoras, by Diog. Laertius]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 1. Relativism
3305
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There is no more purely metaphysical doctrine than Protagorean relativism [Benardete,JA on Protagoras]
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1547
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Man is the measure of all things - of things that are, and of things that are not [Protagoras]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 3. Subjectivism
3313
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If my hot wind is your cold wind, then wind is neither hot nor cold, and so not as cold as itself [Benardete,JA on Protagoras]
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3317
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You can only state the problem of the relative warmth of an object by agreeing on the underlying object [Benardete,JA on Protagoras]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 6. Relativism Critique
247
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God is "the measure of all things", more than any man [Plato on Protagoras]
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612
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Relativists think if you poke your eye and see double, there must be two things [Aristotle on Protagoras]
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606
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Protagoras absurdly thought that the knowing or perceiving man is 'the measure of all things' [Aristotle on Protagoras]
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