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Defeasibility in philosophy : knowledge, agency, responsibility, and the law /

Defeasibility, most generally speaking, means that given some set of conditions A, something else B will hold, unless or until defeating conditions C apply. While the term was introduced into philosophy by legal philosopher H.L.A. Hart in 1949, today, the concept of defeasibility is employed in many...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Blöser, Claudia (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Editions Rodopi, 2013.
Colección:Grazer philosophische Studien ; v. 87.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; Knowledge, Ascriptivism and Defeasible Concepts; Knowledge, Defeasibility, and the Gettier Problem; The Challenges of Traveling without Itinerary: The Overriding Case; Entitlement and Public Accessibility of Epistemic Status; Strawsonian Epistemology. What Epistemologists Can Learn from Freedom and Resentment
  • The Defeasible Structure of Ascriptions of Responsibility; Comment on Claudia Blöser The Defeasible Structure of Ascriptions of Responsibility
  • Reply to Wallace.
  • Can a Spasm Cause an Action? An Argument for Responsibilist Theories of ActionAutonomous by Default. Assessing ""Non-Alienation"" in John Christman's Conception of Personal Autonomy; On the Open Texture of Law; Selected Thematic Bibliography of Work on Defeasibility in Philosophy and Related Disciplines.