Combining Philosophers
Ideas for David O. Brink, Alvin I. Goldman and John Locke
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13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 1. Justification / b. Need for justification
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Believing without a reason may just be love of your own fantasies [Locke]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 3. Internal or External / a. Pro-internalism
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A belief can be justified when the person has forgotten the evidence for it [Goldman]
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We can't only believe things if we are currently conscious of their justification - there are too many [Goldman]
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Internalism must cover Forgotten Evidence, which is no longer retrievable from memory [Goldman]
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Internal justification needs both mental stability and time to compute coherence [Goldman]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 3. Internal or External / b. Pro-externalism
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If justified beliefs are well-formed beliefs, then animals and young children have them [Goldman]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 5. Coherentism / a. Coherence as justification
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Facts beyond immediate experience are assessed by agreement with known truths and observations [Locke]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 5. Coherentism / c. Coherentism critique
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Coherent justification seems to require retrieving all our beliefs simultaneously [Goldman]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 1. External Justification
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For Locke knowledge relates to objects, not to propositions [Locke, by Rorty]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 3. Reliabilism / a. Reliable knowledge
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Justification depends on the reliability of its cause, where reliable processes tend to produce truth [Goldman]
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Reliability involves truth, and truth is external [Goldman]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 8. Social Justification
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Other men's opinions don't add to our knowledge - even when they are true [Locke]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 6. Scepticism Critique
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Locke has no patience with scepticism [Locke, by Robinson,H]
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