Epistemological disjunctivism

Oxford: Oxford University Press (2012)
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Abstract

Epistemological disjunctivism in outline -- Favouring versus discriminating epistemic support -- Radical scepticsim.

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Introduction

This introductory chapter sets out the main contours of the epistemological disjunctivist proposal and the challenge that it poses to contemporary thinking in epistemology. In particular, it notes how this proposal does not seem to fit within the contemporary understanding of the epistemic... see more

Motivating Epistemological Disjunctivism

This chapter suggests that the reason why epistemological disjunctivism is not widely adopted is because it is held to face several fatal theoretical problems. Accordingly, whatever commonsense support it might have, it is thought to be a complete non-starter as a theoretical position. Epi... see more

The Relevant Alternatives Account of Perceptual Knowledge

This chapter suggests that the relationship between perceptual knowledge and discrimination fits very neatly with an intuition that is widespread in epistemology, what is referred to as the core relevant alternatives intuition. This intuition states that in order to know a proposition, p, ... see more

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