New Perspectives on Epistemic Closure (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Jope, Matthew; Pritchard, Duncan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume features new perspectives on the topic of epistemic closure. It connects epistemic closure principles to related themes in epistemology such as scepticism, dogmatism, evidentialism, epistemic logic, and modal epistemology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000685954
• Artikelnr.: 65711642

Autorenporträt

Matthew Jope is Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. His main area of research is epistemology, with a focus on closure, scepticism, trust, and risk. Previously, he held postdoctoral positions at the University of Barcelona and the University of Glasgow, and before that, he was a Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher at the University of Edinburgh where he completed his PhD. His work has appeared in the Journal of Philosophy, Synthese, and Erkenntnis. Duncan Pritchard FRSE is UC Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine, and Director of the Center for Knowledge, Technology & Society. His main area of research is epistemology, and he has published widely in this area, including the monographs Epistemic Luck (2005), The Nature and Value of Knowledge (co-authored, 2010), Epistemological Disjunctivism (2012), and Epistemic Angst: Radical Skepticism and the Groundlessness of Our Believing (2015). His most recent book is Scepticism: A Very Short Introduction (2019). In 2007, he was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize. In 2011, he was elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 2013, he delivered the annual Soochow Lectures in Philosophy in Taiwan.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Matthew Jope and Duncan Pritchard
1. Intuitive Closure, Transmission Failure, and Doxastic Justification
Matthew Jope
2. Modest Foundations for Perceptual Knowledge Krista Lawlor
3. Closure, Warrant Transmission, and Defeat Mona Simion
4. Modal Epistemology and the Logic of Counterfactuals Timothy Williamson
5. The Skeptical Paradox and the Generality of Closure (and other
principles) Yuval Avnur
6. Dogma, Defeat, and Transmission Christoph Kelp
7. In Defence of Closure Duncan Pritchard
8. No Spindly Brown Grass: Knowledge, Closure, and Subjective
Distinguishability Genia Schönbaumsfeld
9. Underdetermination and Closure: Thoughts on Two Sceptical Arguments
Martin Smith
10. Closure and Transmission Again Crispin Wright