Ideas of Timothy McGrew, by Theme

[American, fl. 2011, Professor at Western Michigan University.]

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13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 3. Internal or External / a. Pro-internalism
19682 Internalists are much more interested in evidence than externalists are
13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 3. Evidentialism / a. Evidence
19687 Absence of evidence proves nothing, and weird claims need special evidence
19684 Does spotting a new possibility count as evidence?
19688 Every event is highly unlikely (in detail), but may be perfectly plausible
19686 Criminal law needs two separate witnesses, but historians will accept one witness
19680 Maybe all evidence consists of beliefs, rather than of facts
19681 If all evidence is propositional, what is the evidence for the proposition? Do we face a regress?
19689 Several unreliable witnesses can give good support, if they all say the same thing
13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 3. Evidentialism / b. Evidentialism
19683 Narrow evidentialism relies wholly on propositions; the wider form includes other items
14. Science / A. Basis of Science / 6. Falsification
19685 Falsificationism would be naive if even a slight discrepancy in evidence killed a theory