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Ideas for Jonathan Kvanvig, Helen Cartwright and Michael Williams
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13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 1. Justification / a. Justification issues
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Is it people who are justified, or propositions? [Williams,M]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 1. Justification / c. Defeasibility
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The 'defeasibility' approach says true justified belief is knowledge if no undermining facts could be known [Kvanvig]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 2. Justification Challenges / a. Agrippa's trilemma
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Coherentists say that regress problems are assuming 'linear' justification [Williams,M]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 3. Internal or External / a. Pro-internalism
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'Access' internalism says responsibility needs access; weaker 'mentalism' needs mental justification [Kvanvig]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 1. Epistemic virtues
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Epistemic virtues: love of knowledge, courage, caution, autonomy, practical wisdom... [Kvanvig]
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If epistemic virtues are faculties or powers, that doesn't explain propositional knowledge [Kvanvig]
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The value of good means of attaining truth are swamped by the value of the truth itself [Kvanvig]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 2. Pragmatic justification
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What works always takes precedence over theories [Williams,M]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / a. Foundationalism
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Traditional foundationalism is radically internalist [Williams,M]
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Strong foundationalism needs strict inferences; weak version has induction, explanation, probability [Kvanvig]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / b. Basic beliefs
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Experience must be meaningful to act as foundations [Williams,M]
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Basic judgements are immune from error because they have no content [Williams,M]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / c. Empirical foundations
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Are empirical foundations judgements or experiences? [Williams,M]
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Sensory experience may be fixed, but it can still be misdescribed [Williams,M]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / f. Foundationalism critique
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Foundationalists are torn between adequacy and security [Williams,M]
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Strong justification eliminates error, but also reduces our true beliefs [Williams,M]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 5. Coherentism / c. Coherentism critique
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Why should diverse parts of our knowledge be connected? [Williams,M]
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Coherence theory must give a foundational status to coherence itself [Williams,M]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 1. External Justification
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Externalism does not require knowing that you know [Williams,M]
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Externalism ignores the social aspect of knowledge [Williams,M]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 2. Causal Justification
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In the causal theory of knowledge the facts must cause the belief [Williams,M]
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How could there be causal relations to mathematical facts? [Williams,M]
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Only a belief can justify a belief [Williams,M]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 3. Reliabilism / a. Reliable knowledge
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Externalist reliability refers to a range of conventional conditions [Williams,M]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 3. Reliabilism / b. Anti-reliabilism
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Reliabilism cannot assess the justification for propositions we don't believe [Kvanvig]
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Sometimes I ought to distrust sources which are actually reliable [Williams,M]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 5. Controlling Beliefs
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We control our beliefs by virtue of how we enquire [Williams,M]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 10. Anti External Justification
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In the context of scepticism, externalism does not seem to be an option [Williams,M]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 1. Scepticism
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Scepticism just reveals our limited ability to explain things [Williams,M]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 2. Types of Scepticism
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Scepticism can involve discrepancy, relativity, infinity, assumption and circularity [Williams,M]
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