Appearance and Explanation : Phenomenal Explanationism in Epistemology EPUB
by Kevin McCain, Luca Moretti
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Phenomenal Conservatism (the view that an appearance that things are a particular way gives one prima facie justification for believing that they are that way) is a promising, and popular, internalist theory of epistemic justification.
Despite its popularity, it faces numerous objections and challenges.
For instance, epistemologists have argued that Phenomenal Conservatism is incompatible with Bayesianism, is afflicted by bootstrapping and cognitivepenetration problems, does not guarantee that epistemic justification is a stable property, does not provide an account of defeat, and is not a complete theory of epistemic justification.
This book shows that Phenomenal Conservatism is immune to some of these problems, but not all.
Accordingly, it explores theprospects of integrating Phenomenal Conservatism with Explanationism (the view that epistemic justification is a matter of explanatory relations between one's evidence and propositions supported by that evidence).
The resulting theory, Phenomenal Explanationism, has advantages over Phenomenal Conservatism and Explanationism taken on their own.
Phenomenal Explanationism is a highly unified, comprehensive internalist theory of epistemic justification that delivers on the promises of PhenomenalConservatism while avoiding its pitfalls.
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- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:OUP Oxford
- Publication Date:25/11/2021
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:OUP Oxford
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- ISBN:9780192650771