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The reliability of the cognitive mechanism : a mechanist account of empirical justification /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, New York ; London [England] :
Routledge,
2015.
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| Colección: | Routledge library editions. Epistemology.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Original Title; Original Copyright; Preface ; Preface References ; Acknowledgements ; Contents; CHAPTER I. Introduction; justification and Justification (1); Some Terminological Difficulties: Justification for Xing a Y; Justification and Inference; Actual and Potential Inferences; A Clash of Paradigms; Outline of the Strategy; Summary; CHAPTER II. The Inferentialist Paradigm: The Formal Analysis; Summary; CHAPTER III. Foundationalism; Inductive Inference; Inductive Probability; Probabilistic Analyses of Acceptance.
- The (Partial) Analysis of Inductive Inference by Deductive RelationsInferential Priority; The Revisability of Observation Statements; Theoretical Seeing; The Theoretical Commitments of Observation Statements (1); Conventionalism; Equal Priority ; The Theoretical Commitments of Observation Statements (2); Probabilistic Premises; Observation Statements as Statements Describing Experience; A New Foundationalist Alternative; Conclusion; Summary; CHAPTER IV. Our Cognitive Mechanism; Empirical Beliefs: Beliefs Based on Observation; Inferences and Inferences
- Inferential Support; Summary.
- CHAPTER V. Infallibility and ReliabilityInfallibility; Reliability (1); Statistical Probability; Reliability (2); Reference Predicates That Say Too Little; Reference Predicates That Say Too Much; Reliability, Probability, and Relative Frequencies; The Random Confidence Generator; The Reliability of One's Own Faculties; Non-Statistical Interpretations of Probability: The Mystery of the Missing Reference Predicate; Confidence Assignments That Are Unreliably High (or Low) ; Decisiveness; Summary; CHAPTER VI. More About Our Cognitive Mechanism; Probabilistic ""Inferences""
- The ""Self-Correcting"" Feature of Our Cognitive MechanismSummary; CHAPTER VII. justification; justification By Cause; justified Assignments of Confidence and justified Beliefs; The Causal Transmission of justification and of unjustification; justification and ""Self-Correction"" ; Normative Theories of Justification; Armchair Theories of Justification; justification and Justification (2); Summary; CHAPTER VIII. Justification; Justificationi and Justificationr; Empirical Justification; The Comparison with Pragmatic Theories of Justification; The Comparison with Foundationalism.
- The Justificatory Role of ObservationThe Justifiedr Behaviorist; The Comparison with Coherence Theories; Descriptive Coherence Theories; Normative Coherence Theories; Theories With Classical Logic Built Into Them; Conclusion; The Requirement of Consistency; Justificationr Has Nothing Built Into It; Summary; CHAPTER IX. Justification and Skepticism: The Connection With Truth; Justification and Truth; The Threat of Skepticism; The General Skeptical Argument; Special Skeptical Arguments; Being Justified and Giving One's Justification; Conclusion; Summary; CHAPTER X. Conclusion.