Alexandre Declos,Vincent Grandjean
Alexandre Declos
In this paper, we examine an overlooked answer to the Special Composition Question (SCQ), termed "Mereological Anti-Conservatism." This view posits that extraordinary objects exist but that ordinary objects do not. For example, while tables...
Bradford Saad
Bradford Saad
A causal argument for physicalism is widely held to pose a problem for dualism. This view has an unobvious presupposition, namely that the causal closure of the physical has a special sort of ground. The requisite sort of ground must distin...
Evidential Incognizance [0.03%]
证据无视现象
Simon Rippon
Simon Rippon
In this article, I explore an epistemic vice I call "evidential incognizance." It is a vice of failing generally to recognize evidence, or recognize the full force of evidence, in a domain of knowledge. It frequently manifests as a kind of ...
Guido Melchior
Guido Melchior
In this Précis, I provide an overview of my Monograph Knowing and Checking: An Epistemological Investigation (Melchior 2019), which is subject to a book symposium organized by the University of Maribor. This volume in Acta Analytica contai...
Replies to the Critics of Knowing and Checking: an Epistemological Investigation [0.03%]
认识与确证的批判以及认识论考察
Guido Melchior
Guido Melchior
This paper replies to the comments made in Acta Analytica by Peter Baumann, Kelly Becker, Marian David, Nenad Miščević, Wes Siscoe, and Danilo Šuster on my Knowing and Checking: An Epistemological Investigation (Routledge 2019), hereina...
Claire Field
Claire Field
I argue for the unexceptionality of evidence about what rationality requires. Specifically, I argue that, as for other topics, one's total evidence can sometimes support false beliefs about this. Despite being prima facie innocuous, a numbe...
Mylan Engel Jr
Mylan Engel Jr
In this article, I develop and defend a version of reliabilism - internal reasons reliabilism - that resolves the paradox of epistemic luck, solves the Gettier problem by ruling out veritic luck, is immune to the generality problem, resolve...
Cognitive Focus [0.03%]
认知聚焦
Julie Wulfemeyer
Julie Wulfemeyer
Philosophers of mind and language who advance causal theories face a sort of conjunction problem. When we say that the thing had in mind or the thing referred to is a matter of what causally impacted the thinker or speaker, we must somehow ...
Miloud Belkoniene,Patryk Dziurosz-Serafinowicz
Miloud Belkoniene
This paper discusses the conditions under which an agent is rationally permitted to leave some uncertain propositions relevant to her decision out of her deliberation. By relying on the view that belief involves a defeasible disposition to ...