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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Alvin Plantinga |
| ISBN: | 0195078632 9780195078633 0195078640 9780195078640 |
| OCLC Number: | 25628862 |
| Description: | xii, 243 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Warrant: A First Approximation -- Proper Function -- The Design Plan -- Reliability -- Warrant: Objections and Refinements -- The Design Plan -- Two Concluding Comments -- Exploring the Design Plan: Myself and My Past -- Knowledge of Myself -- Memory -- Other Persons and Testimony -- Other Persons -- Testimony -- Perception -- Perceptual Belief as Knowledge -- Perceptual Experience -- Perceptual Beliefs as Basic -- Perceptual Beliefs Formed on the Basis of Experience -- Nature, Nurture, and Perceptual Judgments -- A Priori Knowledge -- A Priori Knowledge Initially Characterized -- A Priori Knowledge Is Knowledge -- Fallibilistic A Priorism -- A Priori Knowledge and the Causal Requirements -- Why Propositions Cannot Be Concrete -- Back to the Causal Requirement -- Induction -- The Old Riddle of Induction -- The New Riddle of Induction -- Epistemic Probability: Some Current Views -- Epistemic Probability and Statistical Probability -- Theories of Epistemic Probability -- Epistemic Conditional Probability: The Sober Truth -- The Two Faces of Epistemic Probability -- An Account of the Normative Component -- Replies and Comments -- Coherence, Foundations, and Evidence -- Coherence and Foundations -- Evidentialism -- Naturalism versus Proper Function? -- Naturalistic Analyses of Proper Function -- So What's a Poor Naturalist to Do? -- Is Naturalism Irrational? -- The Problem -- Darwin's Doubt -- A Preliminary Argument against Naturalism -- The Main Argument Against Naturalism. |
| Responsibility: | Alvin Plantinga. |
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Abstract:
In this companion volume to Warrant : the Current Debate, Alvin Plantinga develops an original approach to the question of epistemic warrant; that is, what turns true belief into knowledge. He argues that what is crucial to warrant is the proper functioning of one's cognitive faculties in the right kind of cognitive environment. He begins by examining the notion of proper function and its colleagues: purpose, damage, design plan, malfunction, and the like. He then explores the general features of the cognitive design plan, explaining how his account of warrant applies in each of the main areas of the epistemic establishment: knowledge of self, knowledge by way of memory, knowledge of other persons, knowledge by way of testimony, perception, a priori knowledge and belief, induction, and probability. He goes on to investigate the question of whether knowledge has a foundationalist structure and concludes with an argument that naturalism in epistemology flourishes best within the context of supernaturalism in theology or metaphysics. --From publisher's description.
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