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Single Idea 2747
[filed under theme 13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 2. Causal Justification
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Full Idea
Causal accounts of justification do not allow for the possibility that a false belief may still be justified.
Gist of Idea
Causal theories don't allow for errors in justification
Source
Jonathan Dancy (Intro to Contemporary Epistemology [1985], 2.4)
Book Ref
Dancy,Jonathan: 'Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology' [Blackwell 1985], p.35
A Reaction
Good. If you switch to what you only think is the cause of your belief, you have gone internalist and ruined the party. You can't deny that a falsehood can be justified, or justification is vacuous.
The
14 ideas
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[justification needs a causal link from facts to beliefs]:
11052
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Psychological logic can't distinguish justification from causes of a belief
[Frege]
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3790
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Causes of beliefs are irrelevant to their contents
[Wittgenstein]
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3832
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Causes (usually events) are not the same as reasons (which are never events)
[Searle]
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8798
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Vision causes and justifies beliefs; but to some extent the cause is the justification
[Sosa]
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16279
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General causal theories of knowledge are refuted by mathematics
[Lewis]
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3795
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Causal theories require the "right" sort of link (usually unspecified)
[Dennett]
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2746
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How can a causal theory of justification show that all men die?
[Dancy,J]
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2747
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Causal theories don't allow for errors in justification
[Dancy,J]
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3569
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In the causal theory of knowledge the facts must cause the belief
[Williams,M]
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3567
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How could there be causal relations to mathematical facts?
[Williams,M]
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3586
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Only a belief can justify a belief
[Williams,M]
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3898
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My belief that it will rain tomorrow can't be caused by its raining tomorrow
[Scruton]
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6358
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One belief may cause another, without being the basis for the second belief
[Pollock/Cruz]
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10350
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Cultures decide causal routes, and they can be critically assessed
[Kusch]
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