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...Paul Draper Schellenberg J. L. , The Will to Imagine: A Justification of Skeptical Religion . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2009 . xv +267 pp . © 2012 by Cornell University 2012 BOOK REVIEWS Frederick C. Beiser, Diotima’s Children...

...Michael Bergmann Laurence BonJour and Ernest Sosa, Epistemic Justification: Internalism vs. Externalism, Foundations vs. Virtues. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003. Pp. vii, 240. Cornell University 2004 BOOK REVIEWS The Philosophical Review...

...Jennifer Nagel Albert Casullo, A Priori Justification . New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xiii + 249 pp. Cornell University 2006 BOOK REVIEWS Christopher Peacocke, The Realm of Reason. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. x + 284 pp. At any given...

...) Evidence, Pragmatics, and Justification Jeremy Fantl and Matthew McGrath Train Case 1. You’re at Back Bay Station in Boston preparing to take the commuter rail to Providence. You’re going to see friends. It will be a relaxing vacation. You’ve been in a rather...

... that these deductions are instances of transmission failure. That is, they argue that these deductions cannot transmit justification to their conclusions. This essay contends, however, that the notoriety of these deductions is undeserved. Its strategy is to clarify, attack, defend, and apply. The essay clarifies what...

... by, systems of social oppression. In such cases, the article suggests, the externalistic view that justification is in part a matter of worldly relations, rather than the internalistic view that justification is solely a matter of how things stand from the agent’s individual perspective, becomes the more...

... (or propositional justification) and well-groundedness (or doxastic justification). The discussion focuses on conciliatory views, according to which peer disagreements require you to significantly revise your view or to suspend judgment. The article argues that for a wide range of conceptions of evidential support...

... and abstinence. Hence no such principle provides a justification for condemning zygotic abortion while condoning abstinence or contraception. Cornell University 2008 xxx pr08-001 June 10, 2008 13:21 The Egg and I: Conception...

...: it sets the bar for coherence too high and places certain cases of self-doubt on the wrong side of the divide. Given that the suppositional test is unsatisfactory, we are left without any justification for discriminating between Diachronic DBAs and ought to reject them all—including the DBA...

...Jennifer Lackey This essay raises new objections to the two dominant approaches to understanding the justification of group beliefs— inflationary views, where groups are treated as entities that can float freely from the epistemic status of their members’ beliefs, and deflationary views, where...

... for the latter to secure in a principled way. Section 2 presents Epistemic Kantianism. Section 3 argues that it is uniquely poised to satisfy the desiderata set out in section 1 on an ideal theory of epistemic justification. Section 4 gives three further arguments, suggesting that it (1) best explains...

...John Hawthorne; Maria Lasonen-Aarnio The main aims in this article are to discuss and criticize the core thesis of a position that has become known as phenomenal conservatism . According to this thesis, its seeming to one that p provides enough justification for a belief in p to be prima facie...

..., with no philosophical training and no erudite cognitive scientific knowledge, surely aren't forming intuitive judgments of justifiedness on the basis of the kinds of processes described by A&P. Can a theory that incorporates A&P have anything to do with our intuitive judgments of justification...

... cannot know anything. They cannot know anything because they cannot have any epistemic justification for their beliefs. And that is because all epistemic justification derives from mental states that are, or are disposed to cause, phenomenally conscious mental states. Smithies has written a long book...

... such criticisms by arguing that the relevant processes that fix beliefs must be a lawlike relation to truths. Firth worries that the proposal would render the agent’s current justification dependent upon future out- comes. I expect that the reliabilist would respond with a levels distinction...

... the murder. Nor can we say whether the chief is justified in taking the detective's word for it that it was Plum. Nevertheless, we can say something about the kinds of factors on which the justification of their beliefs depends. Consider first the detective. When he initially concludes...

... is a claim about epistemic justification. Epistemic justi- fication is contrasted with pragmatic justification. The intuitive idea is that the epistemic justification for a belief is constituted by evidence forthe truth of that belief—it is a consideration that counts in favor of that I would like...

..., and causal perception. While there may be a joint in nature between perception and cognition, the normative joints in the mind do not all neatly map onto it. © 2020 by Cornell University 2020 basing relation core cognition reasons perception perceptual justification According...

... equal justification for believing to be a highly reliable news source—reported it. 1 Furthermore, So-Hyun is aware of both reports and knows that each report says that Russian forces bombed civilian targets in Syria. Thus, in at least some ordinary sense of the term, So-Hyun “has” both reasons...

... justification was the least exciting part of the course. This wasn't particularly surprising to me, since the literature on justification is a bit stagnant. It can mostly be characterized by internalists going back and forth about foundationalism and coherentism and externalists producing ever more complicated...