Circularity: How do I justify my belief in P? It coheres with Q. Isolation Problem: Coherentism isolates my beliefs from the external world. Plurality: It is possible to have 2 coherent systems that are logically incompatible. Read chapter 4 of Epistemology: Becoming Intellectually Virtuous‚ “Foundationalism.” As you do‚ consider the following questions and points: What is the root idea of foundationalism? Each of us holds a set of beliefs basically or immediately while we hold other beliefs non
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Robert Nozick and Reliabilism Robert Nozick is an American political philosopher‚ who is well-known as father of libertarianism. Reliabilism is one of the approaches to epistemology that explains the belief forming process with true conduciveness. According to Professor Bernecker‚ Nozick defines reliabilism as “what qualifies a true belief as knowledge is its reliable linkage to the facts that make the belief true.” However‚ Nozick adds that a belief must be both true and reliably true‚ which means
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There are many ways that experts in a discipline disagree with one another; given the same facts. Through various areas of knowledge‚ there has been countless evidence of the possibility of disagreement between experts. Usually people who are adept in their field think very differently than other experts in their discipline. They may interpret certain facts differently‚ and with divergent thinking comes disagreements. In this essay‚ with reference to human sciences and history‚ I will explain how
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Andrew Ford Philosophy 1st Hour February 13‚ 2002 Philosophy Book: Chapter 1 Old guys‚ old rules‚ old news‚ right? Wrong. Philosophy is an important subject‚ because it helps us understand three big questions; "why are we here"‚ "what do we do"‚ and "how do we treat each other". These are important questions to answer because without them we may end up in a situation much like the Taliban is in right now. Complete chaos created from confusion about those three big questions. These questions
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OBTAIN KNOWLEDGE The debate about truth upon two schools of thought‚ rationalism and empiricism has existed for long time. Although‚ they have played important role as contemplated for answering the proposition‚ their view on obtaining truth‚ epistemology‚ and nature of knowledge is different. How do these different philosophies
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Edmund Gettier challenged the classical analysis of knowledge as justified true belief‚ demonstrating two cases where a true and justified belief is held‚ but not necessarily knowledge - Is Justified True Belief Knowledge? (1963). Showing that justification is insufficient for demarcating mere true beliefs from knowledge as belief and truth can correlate by luck. In what follows‚ section-one will outline the classical analysis of knowledge and Gettier’s challenge to it‚ focusing on Gettier’s first
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and existence‚ especially when considered as an academic discipline. It tries to explain many aspects in everyday life. The three main branches of philosophy are metaphysics‚ which asks the question of what is reality or the nature of reality? Epistemology‚ which asks how we know what we know? Finally‚ Ethics‚ which asks how we should live in light of what we know about reality? Each of these branches contribute to answering the many problems and questions humans have had over their whole existence
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Knowledge is defined as Justified True Belief. A belief can be anything from the belief in my own existence to the belief that I will get good grades in the course. No one can argue what a person believes. But for a belief to be accepted as knowledge‚ it needs to be justified and be true. Skeptics raised a question as to how can you justify anything being true. The common answer was: based on our senses‚ but then who is to say the senses are true? To be clearer‚ for me to claim that the existence
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Reading Questions for Phil 413.900‚ Spring 2009 (Daniel) Questions on Descartes’ Meditations I & II (Jan. 22) 1. For Descartes‚ why can’t knowledge gained through sense experience be trusted as the basis of knowledge? 2. How are the doubts raised by our experience of dreaming different from‚ and more profound than‚ doubts raised about errors in sense experience? 3. How is the evil genius argument intended to be broader in scope than either the arguments about doubting sense experience or dreaming
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