Epistemic justification and the skeptical challenge
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
Hamid Vahid.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Palgrave Macmillan
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2005
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
(ix, 236 pages)
CONTENTS NOTE
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Acknowledgements --;Introduction --;PART 1: EPISTEMIC JUSTIFICATION --;Introduction --;Elements of a Theory of Justification --;Deontological Conception of Justification --;The Internalism/Externalism Divide --;PART 2: THE SKEPTICAL CHALLENGE --;The Problem of the Criterion --;Universalizability and Closure --;Skepticism and Underdetermination --;PART 3: MEETING THE SKEPTICAL CHALLENGE? --;Argument from the Principle of Charity --;Argument from Epistemic Conservatism --;Argument from Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE) --;The Epistemological Significance of Transcendental Arguments --;Notes --;References --;Index.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Providing critical examination of key responses to the skeptical challenge, Hamid Vahid presents a theory which is shown to work alongside the internalism/externalism issue and the thesis of semantic externalism, with a deontological conception of justification at its core.