Reason and Explanation

A Defense of Explanatory Coherentism
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-349-43655-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 195 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 2679 g

Reihe: Palgrave Innovations in Philosophy

In this new explanationist account of epistemic justification, Poston argues that the explanatory virtues provide all the materials necessary for a plausible account of justified belief. There are no purely autonomous reasons. Rather reasons occur only within an explanatory coherent set of beliefs.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Poston, T.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editors' Preface Preface 1. Introduction 2. Epistemic Conservatism 3. Reasons without First Philosophy 4. Explanation and Justification 5. BonJour and the Myth of the Given 6. Is Foundational a Priori Justification Indispensable? 7. Bayesian Explanationism Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ted Poston is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Alabama, USA. His primary areas of research are epistemology and philosophy of science. He has written many articles in journals such as American Philosophical Quarterly, Dialectica, Episteme, Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy and Phenomenology Research, Res Philosophica, and The Southern Journal of Philosophy.