Modal Justification via Theories

AvBob Fischer

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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According to TEM, someone justifiably believe an interesting modal claim if and only if (a) she justifiably believes a theory according to which that claim is true, (b) she believes that claim on the basis of that theory, and (c) she has no defeaters for her belief in that claim.

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-07-07
Mått:155 x 235 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Synthese Library
Antal sidor:135
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783319840895

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Bob Fischer is an assistant professor of philosophy at Texas State University. He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he wrote his dissertation under W. D. Hart. He is co-editor of two volumes: The Moral Complexities of Eating Meat (Oxford University Press, 2015) and Modal Epistemology After Rationalism (Springer, 2016). He has published papers on modal epistemology, the philosophy of science, moral psychology, and animal ethics. Among other venues, his work has appeared in Synthese, American Philosophical Quarterly, The Canadian Journalof Philosophy, Analytic Philosophy, Erkenntnis, and Ethical Theory & Moral Practice.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1. A Theory-based Epistemology of Modality.- Chapter 2. TEM’s Details.- Chapter 3. Objections and Clarifications.- Chapter 4. Theory Selection.- Chapter 5. TEM and Modal Skepticism.- Chapter 6. Against Optimism.- Chapter 7. TEM and the Theoretical Virtues.