Ideas of Martin Kusch, by Theme

[British, fl. 2002, Professor of Philosophy and Sociology of Science at the University of Cambridge.]

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3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth
10354 Correspondence could be with other beliefs, rather than external facts
3. Truth / F. Semantic Truth / 1. Tarski's Truth / a. Tarski's truth definition
10353 Tarskians distinguish truth from falsehood by relations between members of sets
11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / a. Beliefs
10337 We can have knowledge without belief, if others credit us with knowledge
11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 4. Solipsism
10357 Methodological Solipsism assumes all ideas could be derived from one mind
13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / f. Foundationalism critique
10339 Foundations seem utterly private, even from oneself at a later time
13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 5. Coherentism / a. Coherence as justification
10331 Testimony is reliable if it coheres with evidence for a belief, and with other beliefs
10338 The coherentist restricts the space of reasons to the realm of beliefs
13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 5. Coherentism / c. Coherentism critique
10340 Individualistic coherentism lacks access to all of my beliefs, or critical judgement of my assessment
10345 Individual coherentism cannot generate the necessary normativity
13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 2. Causal Justification
10350 Cultures decide causal routes, and they can be critically assessed
13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 3. Reliabilism / a. Reliable knowledge
10343 Process reliabilism has been called 'virtue epistemology', resting on perception, memory, reason
13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 6. Contextual Justification / a. Contextualism
10341 Justification depends on the audience and one's social role
13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 7. Testimony
10324 Testimony does not just transmit knowledge between individuals - it actually generates knowledge
10325 Vindicating testimony is an expression of individualism
10327 Some want to reduce testimony to foundations of perceptions, memories and inferences
10329 Testimony won't reduce to perception, if perception depends on social concepts and categories
10334 Testimony is an area in which epistemology meets ethics
10330 A foundation is what is intelligible, hence from a rational source, and tending towards truth
10336 Powerless people are assumed to be unreliable, even about their own lives
13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 8. Social Justification
10335 Myths about lonely genius are based on epistemological individualism
10323 Communitarian Epistemology says 'knowledge' is a social status granted to groups of people
10348 Private justification is justification to imagined other people
16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 2. Self as Social Construct
10349 To be considered 'an individual' is performed by a society
18. Thought / D. Concepts / 1. Concepts / a. Nature of concepts
10344 Our experience may be conceptual, but surely not the world itself?
19. Language / F. Communication / 1. Rhetoric
10358 Often socialising people is the only way to persuade them
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 7. Communitarianism / a. Communitarianism
10333 Communitarianism in epistemology sees the community as the primary knower
26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 7. Critique of Kinds
10351 Natural kinds are social institutions
28. God / A. Divine Nature / 4. Divine Contradictions
10332 Omniscience is incoherent, since knowledge is a social concept