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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

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Foley, Richard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Colección:Cambridge studies in philosophy.
Temas:
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.