Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Lynch,MP/Glasgow,JM, Willard Quine and Ernest Sosa
expand these ideas
|
start again
|
choose
another area for these philosophers
display all the ideas for this combination of philosophers
16 ideas
13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / c. Empirical foundations
|
8882
|
Perception may involve thin indexical concepts, or thicker perceptual concepts [Sosa]
|
|
8883
|
Do beliefs only become foundationally justified if we fully attend to features of our experience? [Sosa]
|
13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / d. Rational foundations
|
8885
|
Some features of a thought are known directly, but others must be inferred [Sosa]
|
13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / e. Pro-foundations
|
8876
|
Much propositional knowledge cannot be formulated, as in recognising a face [Sosa]
|
|
8796
|
A single belief can trail two regresses, one terminating and one not [Sosa]
|
13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / f. Foundationalism critique
|
8799
|
If mental states are not propositional, they are logically dumb, and cannot be foundations [Sosa]
|
|
8795
|
Mental states cannot be foundational if they are not immune to error [Sosa]
|
13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 5. Coherentism / c. Coherentism critique
|
8879
|
Fully comprehensive beliefs may not be knowledge [Sosa]
|
13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 2. Causal Justification
|
8798
|
Vision causes and justifies beliefs; but to some extent the cause is the justification [Sosa]
|
13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 9. Naturalised Epistemology
|
7627
|
You can't reduce epistemology to psychology, because that presupposes epistemology [Maund on Quine]
|
|
8871
|
We should abandon a search for justification or foundations, and focus on how knowledge is acquired [Quine, by Davidson]
|
|
8826
|
If we abandon justification and normativity in epistemology, we must also abandon knowledge [Kim on Quine]
|
|
8827
|
Without normativity, naturalized epistemology isn't even about beliefs [Kim on Quine]
|
|
8899
|
Epistemology is a part of psychology, studying how our theories relate to our evidence [Quine]
|
13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 4. Cultural relativism
|
3868
|
To proclaim cultural relativism is to thereby rise above it [Quine, by Newton-Smith]
|
13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 5. Language Relativism
|
1634
|
Two things are relative - the background theory, and translating the object theory into the background theory [Quine]
|