Justified And Philosophy

Author : Rod Carveth,Robert Arp
Publisher : Open Court
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780812698886

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Justified and Philosophy by Rod Carveth,Robert Arp Pdf

The sharp-shooting authors in Justified and Philosophy take aim at many of the same philosophical problems that the Justified TV series grapples with. For instance, is Tim Olyphant's character, Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, morally justified in using his Wild-Wild-West-style vigilante tactics to clean up Harlan County, Kentucky? After all, the meth dealers, thieves, murderers, and other low-life scumbags all deserve what's coming to them, right? Not so fast, Quick-Draw McGraw! What about the law? What about a thorough and complete investigation of matters before dispensing so-called "justice"? What about the idea of the punishment fitting the crime? Deputy Marshal Givens wears a white hat and fights the "bad guys" so he must be a "good guy," right? His opponents are violent drug dealers, white supremacists, and thieves. Givens carries a badge, but when he shoots or kills people, is it always justified? What other choice does he have? Would any other method be as effective in rural eastern Kentucky where criminal activity is one of the few viable options for making a living? The coal-mining culture of Harlan County, Kentucky is an important backdrop to Justified, and the issues surrounding the coal industry are addressed in some chapters. Some of them include health problems like black lung, the dissolution of communities, the reduction in employment alternatives, the destruction of the environment with mountain-top removal and fracking, and the increase in crime and poverty. If Boyd Crowder robs the coal company responsible for exploiting his community, is that justified? The relationship between Boyd and Raylan dates back to a childhood friendship. Then when they older, they worked in the mines together. One chapter explores the character and motivation of both men and argues that each follows a different moral compass. Another chapter discusses the importance of family to the character of Mags Bennett and how that guides her actions and sense of duty. Another topic of discussion is whether the end justifies the means when Boyd and his gang destroy a meth lab and end up killing one of the meth cookers. Other chapters delve into a variety of fascinating philosophical themes that emerge in this modern-day cowboy show.

Author : Robert Audi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1993-10-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521446120

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The Structure of Justification by Robert Audi Pdf

This collection of papers transcends two of the most widely misunderstood positions in philosophy - foundationalism and coherentism.

Author : G. S. Pappas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789400994935

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Justification and Knowledge by G. S. Pappas Pdf

With one exception, all of the papers in this volume were originally presented at a conference held in April, 1978, at The Ohio State University. The excep tion is the paper by Wilfrid Sellars, which is a revised version of a paper he originally published in the Journal of Philosophy, 1973. However, the present version of Sellars' paper is so thoroughly changed from its original, that it is now virtually a new paper. None of the other nine papers has been published previously. The bibliography, prepared by Nancy Kelsik, is very extensive and it is tempting to think that it is complete. But I believe that virtual com pleteness is more likely to prove correct. The conference was made possible by grants from the College of Human ities and the Graduate School, Ohio State University, as well as by a grant from the Philosophy Department. On behalf of the contributors, I want to thank these institutions for their support. I also want to thank Marshall Swain and Robert Turnbu~l for early help and encouragement; Bette Hellinger for assistance in setting up the confer ence; and Mary Raines and Virginia Foster for considerable aid in the pre paration of papers and many other conference matters. The friendly advice of the late James Cornman was also importantly helpful. April,1979 GEORGE S. PAPPAS ix INTRODUCTION The papers in this volume deal in different ways with the related issues of epistemic justification or warrant, and the analysis of factual knowledge.

Author : Clayton Littlejohn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107016125

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Justification and the Truth-Connection by Clayton Littlejohn Pdf

Presents and defends a bold new approach to the ethics of belief and to resolving the internalism-externalism debate in epistemology.

Author : P.K. Moser
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789400945265

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Empirical Justification by P.K. Moser Pdf

Broadly speaking, this is a book about truth and the criteria thereof. Thus it is, in a sense, a book about justification and rationality. But it does not purport to be about the notion of justification or the notion of rationality. For the assumption that there is just one notion of justification, or just one notion of rationality, is, as the book explains, very misleading. Justification and rationality come in various kinds. And to that extent, at least, we should recognize a variety of notions of justification and rationality. This, at any rate, is one of the morals of Chapter VI. This book, in Chapters I-V, is mainly concerned with the kind of justification and rationality characteristic of a truth-seeker, specifically a seeker of truth about the world impinging upon the senses: the so-called empirical world. Hence the book's title. But since the prominent contemporary approaches to empirical justification are many and varied, so also are the epistemological issues taken up in the following chapters. For instance, there will be questions about so-called coherence and its role, if any, in empirical justification. And there will be questions about social consensus (whatever it is) and its significance, or the lack thereof, to empirical justification. Furthermore, the perennial question of whether, and if so how, empirical knowledge has so-called founda tions will be given special attention.

Author : Jessica Brown,Mona Simion
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198847205

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Reasons, Justification, and Defeat by Jessica Brown,Mona Simion Pdf

Traditionally, the notion of defeat has been central to epistemology, practical reasoning, and ethics. Within epistemology, it is standardly assumed that a subject who knows that p, or justifiably believes that p, can lose this knowledge or justified belief by acquiring a so-called 'defeater', whether that is evidence that not-p, evidence that the process that produced her belief is unreliable, or evidence that she has likely misevaluated her own evidence. Within ethics and practical reasoning, it is widely accepted that a subject may initially have a reason to do something although this reason is later defeated by her acquisition of further information. However, the traditional conception of defeat has recently come under attack. Some have argued that the notion of defeat is problematically motivated; others that defeat is hard to accommodate within externalist or naturalistic accounts of knowledge or justification; and still others that the intuitions that support defeat can be explained in other ways. This volume presents new work re-examining the very notion of defeat, and its place in epistemology and in normativity theory at large.

Author : Laurence BonJour,Ernest Sosa
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003-04-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0631182845

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Epistemic Justification by Laurence BonJour,Ernest Sosa Pdf

Ever since Plato it has been thought that one knows only if one's belief hits the mark of truth and does so with adequate justification. The issues debated by Laurence BonJour and Ernest Sosa concern mostly the nature and conditions of such epistemic justification, and its place in our understanding of human knowledge. Presents central issues pertaining to internalism vs. externalism and foundationalism vs. virtue epistemology in the form of a philosophical debate. Introduces students to fundamental questions within epistemology while engaging in contemporary debates. Written by two of today’s foremost epistemologists. Includes an extensive bibliography.

Author : William G. Lycan
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1988-02-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521335809

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Judgement and Justification by William G. Lycan Pdf

Author : Daniel Shapiro
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139466011

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Is the Welfare State Justified? by Daniel Shapiro Pdf

In this book, Daniel Shapiro argues that the dominant positions in contemporary political philosophy - egalitarianism, positive rights theory, communitarianism, and many forms of liberalism - should converge in a rejection of central welfare state institutions. He examines how major welfare institutions, such as government-financed and -administered retirement pensions, national health insurance, and programs for the needy, actually work. Comparing them to compulsory private insurance and private charities, Shapiro argues that the dominant perspectives in political philosophy mistakenly think that their principles support the welfare state. Instead, egalitarians, positive rights theorists, communitarians, and liberals have misunderstood the implications of their own principles, which in fact support more market-based or libertarian institutional conclusions than they may realize. Shapiro's book is unique in its combination of political philosophy with social science. Its focus is not limited to any particular country; rather it examines welfare states in affluent democracies and their market alternatives.

Author : Paul Silva Jr.,Luis R.G. Oliveira
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000568851

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Propositional and Doxastic Justification by Paul Silva Jr.,Luis R.G. Oliveira Pdf

This volume features original essays that advance debates on propositional and doxastic justification and explore how these debates shape and are shaped by a range of established and emerging topics in contemporary epistemology. This is the first book-length project devoted to the distinction between propositional and doxastic justification. Notably, the contributors cover the relationship between propositional and doxastic justification and group belief, credence, commitment, suspension, faith, and hope. They also consider state-of-the-art work on knowledge-first approaches to justification, hinge-epistemology, moral and practical reasons for belief, epistemic normativity, and applications of formal epistemology to traditional epistemological disputes. Finally, the contributors promise to reinvigorate old epistemological debates on coherentism, externalism, internalism, and phenomenal conservatism. Propositional and Doxastic Justification will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working in epistemology, metaethics, and normativity.

Author : David L. Wolfe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0877843406

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Epistemology, the Justification of Belief by David L. Wolfe Pdf

The Contours of Christian Philosophy series will consist of short introductory-level textbooks in the various fields of philosophy. These books will introduce readers to major problems and alternative ways of dealing with those problems. These books, however, will differ from most in that they will evaluate alternative viewpoints not only with regard to their general strength, but also with regard to their value in the construction of a Christian world and life view. Thus, the books will explore the implications of the various views for Christian theology as well as the implications that Christian convictions might have for the philosophical issues discussed. It is crucial that Christians attain a greater degree of philosophical awareness in order to improve the quality of general scholarship and evangelical theology.

Author : Sergei Artemov,Melvin Fitting
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781108424912

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Justification Logic by Sergei Artemov,Melvin Fitting Pdf

Develops a new logic paradigm which emphasizes evidence tracking, including theory, connections to other fields, and sample applications.

Author : Ester Herlin-Karnell,Matthias Klatt,Héctor A. Morales Zúñiga
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190889050

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Constitutionalism Justified by Ester Herlin-Karnell,Matthias Klatt,Héctor A. Morales Zúñiga Pdf

"Rainer Forst is a leading German political philosopher and was named "the most important political philosopher of his generation" upon his 2012 receipt of the Leibniz Prize. This book brings together discussion from political philosophy, constitutional theory, and legal philosophy to examine Forst's theory of justice, paying special attention to the application of his moral theory to legal fields. Forst then responds to his interlocutors in a concluding chapter. The book is structured from the general to the specific, and begins by examining Forst's "right to justification" as the basis for justice. This right is in the second section extended to the realm of constitutional theory. The third section addresses justification and proportionality within constitutional law. The concluding section sees Forst respond to the foregoing chapters"--

Author : Sven Rosenkranz
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198865636

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Justification As Ignorance by Sven Rosenkranz Pdf

Justification as Ignorance offers an original account of epistemic justification as both non-factive and luminous, vindicating core internalist intuitions without construing justification as an internal condition knowable by reflection alone. Sven Rosenkranz conceives of justification, in its doxastic and propositional varieties, as a kind of epistemic possibility of knowing and of being in a position to know. His account contrasts with recent alternative views that characterize justification in terms of the metaphysical possibility of knowing. Instead, he develops a suitable non-normal multi-modal epistemic logic for knowledge and being in a position to know that respects the finding that these notions create hyperintensional contexts. He also defends his conception of justification against well-known anti-luminosity arguments, shows that the account allows for fruitful applications and principled solutions to the lottery and preface paradoxes, and provides a metaphysics of justification and its varying degrees of strength that is compatible with core assumptions of the knowledge-first approach and disjunctivist conceptions of mental states.

Author : Bertrand Russell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192854230

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The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell Pdf

This classic work, first published in 1912, has never been supplanted as an approachable introduction to the theory of philosophical enquiry. It gives Russell's views on such subjects as the distinction between appearance and reality, the existence and nature of matter, idealism, knowledge by acquaintance and by description, induction, truth and falsehood, the distinction between knowledge, error and probable opinion, and the limits and value of philosophical knowledge.