Intellectual trust in oneself and others /
"This book will be of interest to advanced students and professionals working in the fields of philosophy and the social sciences as well as anyone looking for a unified account of the issues at the center of intellectual trust."--Jacket
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2001.
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Colección: | Cambridge studies in philosophy.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. 1. Intellectual Trust in Oneself
- 1. The Importance of Intellectual Self-Trust
- 1. Classical foundationalism and intellectual trust
- 2. Attempts to refute skepticism
- 3. Externalism and the analysis of knowledge
- 4. Epistemology, theology, and natural selection
- 5. Epistemology and the leap of intellectual faith
- 2. Intellectual Self-Trust, Rational Belief, and Invulnerability to Self-Criticism
- 1. Confidence and depth
- 2. Rational belief as invulnerability to self-criticism
- 3. Two thought experiments
- 4. Self-trust and inconsistency
- 5. Rationality and less than ideal outcomes
- 3. Empirical Challenges to Self-Trust
- 1. Studies documenting our tendencies to make errors
- 2. First-person epistemological issues raised by the studies
- 3. Self-monitoring
- 4. The limits of self-monitoring
- 5. The lack of guarantees
- 6. Internal conflict and conflict with others
- pt. 2. Intellectual Trust in Others and in One's Own Future and Past Self
- 4. Self-Trust and the Authority of Others
- 1. Epistemic egotism and epistemic egoism
- 2. Locke on the authority of others
- 3. The social construction of opinion
- 4. The incoherence of epistemic egotism and egoism
- 5. Intellectual conflict with others
- 6. Anonymous reconsidered
- 7. Egalitarianism and expert opinion
- 8. Individualism and autonomy
- 5. Past Opinion and Current Opinion
- 1. The diary problem
- 2. Three theses about past opinion
- 3. An attempt to motivate the credibility thesis
- 4. The incoherence of not trusting past opinion
- 5. Differences in the credibility of past opinions
- 6. The priority thesis and the special reason thesis
- 7. Radical conflicts with one's own past opinions
- 8. Past opinions and the opinions of others
- 6. Future Opinion and Current Opinion
- 1. Epistemic Ulysses problems
- 2. Trust in future opinion
- 3. Reasons for believing that I will believe P
- 4. Conflicts between current and future opinions
- 5. Future opinions and current deliberations
- 6. Self-trust radiates outward.