T. Poston

Reason and Explanation

A Defense of Explanatory Coherentism

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Palgrave Innovations in Philosophy
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-01225-8
• 2014
• Seitenzahl: 195
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 145mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9781137012258
• ISBN-10: 1137012250
• Artikelnr.: 41097080

Autorenporträt

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.    

Inhaltsangabe

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

Rezensionen

"In this interesting book, Ted Poston delivers an original and powerful defence of explanatory coherentism about justification. ... an inspiring monograph that actually advances research in this field Scholars and postgraduates interested in the recent debate on coherentism about epistemic justification should definitely read this book." (Luca Moretti, The Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 67 (266), January, 2017)