Moore's Paradox and the Accessibility of Justification

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 85 (2):273-300 (2011)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

This paper argues that justification is accessible in the sense that one has justification to believe a proposition if and only if one has higher-order justification to believe that one has justification to believe that proposition. I argue that the accessibility of justification is required for explaining what is wrong with believing Moorean conjunctions of the form, ‘p and I do not have justification to believe that p.’

Links

PhilArchive

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

Why Justification Matters.Declan Smithies - 2015 - In David K. Henderson & John Greco (eds.), Epistemic Evaluation: Purposeful Epistemology. Oxford: Oxford University Press UK. pp. 224-244.
Transmission of Justification and Warrant.Luca Moretti & Tommaso Piazza - 2013 - The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
A paradox of justified believing.Colin Cheyne - 2009 - Ratio 22 (3):278-290.
On the Global Ambitions of Phenomenal Conservatism.Declan Smithies - 2019 - Analytic Philosophy 60 (3):206-244.
Justification-Skepticism.Todd Rudolph Long - 2003 - Dissertation, The University of Rochester
The Phenomenal Basis of Epistemic Justification.Declan Smithies - 2014 - In Jesper Kallestrup & Mark Sprevak (eds.), New Waves in Philosophy of Mind. Palgrave MacMillan. pp. 98-124.
The Composite Nature of Epistemic Justification.Paul Silva - 2017 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 98 (1).

Analytics

Added to PP
2020-03-06

Downloads
565 (#30,365)

6 months
116 (#30,939)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Declan Smithies
Ohio State University

Citations of this work

Stop Making Sense? On a Puzzle about Rationality.Littlejohn Clayton - 2018 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research:257-272.
The Conflict of Evidence and Coherence.Alex Worsnip - 2018 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 96 (1):3-44.
Epistemic Akrasia.Sophie Horowitz - 2013 - Noûs 48 (4):718-744.

View all 89 citations / Add more citations

References found in this work

Reasonable religious disagreements.Richard Feldman - 2011 - In Alvin I. Goldman & Dennis Whitcomb (eds.), Social Epistemology: Essential Readings. New York: Oxford University Press.

Add more references