Basic Belief And Basic Knowledge

Author : René van Woudenberg,Sabine Roeser,Ron Rood
Publisher : Ontos Verlag
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3937202706

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Basic Belief and Basic Knowledge by René van Woudenberg,Sabine Roeser,Ron Rood Pdf

Over the last two decades foundationalism has been severely criticized. In response, various alternatives have been advanced, notably coherentism. At the same time new versions of foundationalism were crafted, that were claimed to be immune to the earlier criticisms. This volume contains 12 essays in which various aspects of this dialectic are covered. A number of contributions continue the trend to defend foundationalism, and foundationalism's commitment to basic beliefs and basic knowledge, against various attacks. Others aim to show that one important objection against coherentism, viz. that the notion of coherence' is too vague to be useful, can be countered. Next to these more general issues related to foundationalism, a number of articles deal with much more specific topics. First, various ones deal with mathematical knowledge, and with the problems attached to the idea of basic mathematical knowledgeproblems that derive in part from Benacerraf's work. Second, various contributors deal with Plantinga's notion of "properly basic belief," criticizing it and at the same time proposing improvements on it. Finally there are essays that deal with the problems of basicality in moral knowledge, testimony, and proprioperception. Ren van Woudenberg is professor of philosophy at the Vrije University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He is the Co-Editor of the he "Cambridge Companion to Thomas Reid" (2004). Sabine Roeser is an assistant professor at the Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands. Ron Rood is adjunct professor of philosophy at the Vrije University of Amsterdam.

Author : René Woudenberg,Sabine Roeser,Ron Rood
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110327519

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Basic Belief and Basic Knowledge by René Woudenberg,Sabine Roeser,Ron Rood Pdf

Over the last two decades foundationalism has been severely criticized. In response to this various alternatives to it have been advanced, notably coherentism. At the same time new versions of foundationalism were crafted, that were claimed to be immune to the earlier criticisms. This volume contains 12 papers in which various aspects of this dialectic are covered. A number of papers continue the trend to defend foundationalism, and foundationalism's commitment to basic beliefs and basic knowledge, against various attacks. Others aim to show that one important objection against coherentism, viz. that the notion of 'coherence' is too vague to be useful, can be countered.

Author : Matthew A. Benton,John P. Hawthorne,Dani Rabinowitz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198798705

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Knowledge, Belief, and God by Matthew A. Benton,John P. Hawthorne,Dani Rabinowitz Pdf

Epistemology has flourished in this millennium, with new ideas and approaches of many kinds: Knowledge, Belief, and God shows how these developments can illuminate the philosophy of religion and analytic theology. And philosophy of religion is shown to be a valuable testing-ground for epistemology.--

Author : Alvin Plantinga
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780802872043

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Knowledge and Christian Belief by Alvin Plantinga Pdf

Author : Donald E. Demaray
Publisher : Light & Life Communications
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1996-02-01
Category : Theology, Doctrinal
ISBN : 0893671789

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Basic Beliefs by Donald E. Demaray Pdf

Author : D. M. Armstrong
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1973-02-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521087066

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Belief, Truth and Knowledge by D. M. Armstrong Pdf

A wide-ranging study of the central concepts in epistemology - belief, truth and knowledge. Professor Armstrong offers a dispositional account of general beliefs and of knowledge of general propositions. Belief about particular matters of fact are described as structures in the mind of the believer which represent or 'map' reality, while general beliefs are dispositions to extend the 'map' or introduce casual relations between portions of the map according to general rules. 'Knowledge' denotes the reliability of such beliefs as representations of reality. Within this framework Professor Armstrong offers a distinctive account of many of the main questions in general epistemology - the relations between beliefs and language, the notions of proposition, concept and idea, the analysis of truth, the varieties of knowledge, and the way in which beleifs and knowledge are supported by reasons. The book as a whole if offered as a contribution to a naturalistic account of man.

Author : H. Vahid
Publisher : Springer
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780230584471

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The Epistemology of Belief by H. Vahid Pdf

This book offers a challenge to certain epistemic features of belief, resulting in a unified and coherent picture of the epistemology of belief. The author examines current ideas in a number of areas, beginning with the truth-directed nature of belief in the context of the so-called 'Moore's paradoxes'. He then investigates the sensitivity of beliefs to evidence by exploring how sensory experiences can confer justifications on the beliefs they give rise to, and provides an account of the basing relation problem. The consequences of these arguments are carefully considered, particularly the issues involving the problem of easy knowledge and warrant transmission. Finally, he focuses on the purported fallibility of beliefs and our knowledge of their contents, arguing that the fallible/infallible distinction is best understood in terms of externalist/internalist conceptions of knowledge, and that the thesis of content externalism does not threaten the privileged character of self-knowledge.

Author : Robert Audi
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190221836

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Rational Belief by Robert Audi Pdf

Belief : its structure, content, and relation to the will -- Dispositional beliefs and dispositions to believe -- Doxastic voluntarism and the ethics of belief -- Belief : a study in form, content, and justification -- Normativity and virtue in epistemology -- Moral perception and moral knowledge -- Reliability as a virtue -- Knowledge, justification, and the normativity of epistemology -- Epistemological internalism and grounds of justification and knowledge -- An internalist theory of normative grounds -- Theoretical rationality : its sources, structure, and scope -- Doxastic innocence : phenomenal conservatism and epistemological common sense -- Skepticism about the a priori : self-evidence, defeasibility, and cogito propositions -- Social epistemology -- The place of testimony in the fabric of knowledge and justification -- Testimony as a social foundation of knowledge -- The ethics of belief and the morality of disagreement : intellectual responsibility and rational disagreement.

Author : Paul Weingartner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110584516

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Knowledge and Scientific and Religious Belief by Paul Weingartner Pdf

The present book is a book on epistemology with the special and new focus on the relation of different types of knowledge and a differentiated comparison to both scientific and religious belief. The present book distinguishes seven types of knowledge and compares them with both scientific and religious belief. The ususal view is that scientific and religious belief have nothing or not much in common. Although there are important differences, in contradistinction to this widespread view it is shown that there are also many similarities between them. There are similarities concerning the reasons for belief, with respect to the action of believing, concerning a similar voluntary component, or even concerning properties of the content of belief. A detailed discussion of many types of knowledge and a differentiated comparison to scientific and religious belief is an important new contribution to the scientific literature in epistemology.

Author : Donald E. Demaray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1958-01-01
Category : Theology, Doctrinal
ISBN : 0893672106

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Basic Beliefs by Donald E. Demaray Pdf

Author : Frederick Ferré
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135976415

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Basic Modern Philosophy of Religion by Frederick Ferré Pdf

This book provides a reasoned, comprehensive understanding of what religion is as well as a clear and critical assessment of whether, in the light of modern developments in philosophy, contemporary thinking people can responsibly maintain religious belief in God. The book is divided into three major sections: the first deals with what all religions may be said to have in common; the second discusses theistic religion and the issue of intellectually responsible belief in God; the third examines current developments within a particular theistic religion, Christianity. Originally published in 1968, the book is basic, both in the nature of the issues it discusses and in the clarity and comprehensiveness of its presentation; it is varied in the arguments and perspectives dealt with; it provides an introduction to philosophical thinking through the problems of philosophy of religion; and it deals seriously with controversial movements in theology.

Author : Michael Williams
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691222028

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Groundless Belief by Michael Williams Pdf

Inspired by the work of Wilfrid Sellars, Michael Williams launches an all-out attack on what he calls "phenomenalism," the idea that our knowledge of the world rests on a perceptual or experiential foundation. The point of this wider-than-normal usage of the term "phenomenalism," according to which even some forms of direct realism deserve to be called phenomenalistic, is to call attention to important continuities of thought between theories often thought to be competitors. Williams's target is not phenomenalism in its classical sense-datum and reductionist form but empiricism generally. Williams examines and rejects the idea that, unless our beliefs are answerable to a "given" element in experience, objective knowledge will be impossible. Groundless Belief was first published in 1977. This second edition contains a new afterword in which Williams places his arguments in the context of some current discussions of coherentism versus the Myth of the Given and explains their relation to subsequent developments in his own epistemological views.

Author : Martin Kusch
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199251377

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Knowledge by Agreement by Martin Kusch Pdf

Knowledge by Agreement defends the ideas that knowledge is a social status (like money, or marriage), and that knowledge is primarily the possession of groups rather than individuals. Part I develops a new theory of testimony. It breaks with the traditional view according to which testimony is not, except accidentally, a generative source of knowledge. One important consequence of the new theory is a rejection of attempts to globally justify trust in the words of others. Part II proposes a communitarian theory of empirical knowledge. Martin Kusch argues that empirical belief can acquire the status of knowledge only by being shared with others, and that all empirical beliefs presuppose social institutions. As a result all knowledge is essentially political. Part III defends some of the controversial premises and consequences of Parts I and II: the community-dependence of normativity, epistemological and semantic relativism, anti-realism, and a social conception of objectivity. Martin Kusch's bold approach to epistemology is a challenge to philosophy and will arouse interest in the wider academic world.

Author : Keith Lehrer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0198244169

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Knowledge by Keith Lehrer Pdf

Author : Dieter Schönecker
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110430202

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Plantinga's 'Warranted Christian Belief' by Dieter Schönecker Pdf

Alvin Plantinga’s Warranted Christian Belief has very quickly become one of the most influential books in philosophy of religion. In this collection of essays, German philosophers, theologians and a mathematician deal critically with several aspects of Plantinga’s seminal work. In a long essay, Plantinga answers to these critics.