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Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
ix, 273 p.
Description
"Philosophers have long been concerned about what we know and how we know it. Increasingly, however, a related question has gained prominence in philosophical discussion: what should we believe and why? This volume brings together twelve new essays that address different aspects of this question. The essays examine foundational questions about reasons for belief, and use new research on reasons for belief to address traditional epistemological concerns...
Author
Pub. Date
1993
Physical Desc
xii, 228 p.
Description
Contemporary epistemologists seldom focus attention on the nature of warrant; and when they do, they display deplorable diversity. The author argues that none of their claims is correct, and suggests a more satisfactory alternative. He surveys current contributions to the discussion of warrant and neighbouring issues.
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
ix, 177 p.
Description
"An argument may fail because it is unsound. A trivial conclusion is another fault. Do all the sceptic's arguments have one or both of these deficiencies? This book conjectures that they do. Some sceptical arguments are entirely sound. Some have non-trivial conclusions. But none, it is conjectured, has both of these advantages."
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (281 pages).
Description
A wide-ranging argument by a renowned anthropologist that the capacity to believe is what makes us human
Why are so many humans religious? Why do we daydream, imagine, and hope? Philosophers, theologians, social scientists, and historians have offered explanations for centuries, but their accounts often ignore or even avoid human evolution. Evolutionary scientists answer with proposals for why ritual, religion, and faith make sense as adaptations...
Author
Pub. Date
1993
Physical Desc
xii, 243 p.
Description
The author argues that what is crucial to turning true belief into knowledge is the 'proper functioning' of one's cognitive faculties, and this clears the way for the proposal that a belief is warranted whenever it is the product of properly functioning cognitive processes.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (262 pages)
Description
Analyzing epistemic sophistication in terms of the stringency of a person's standards, her skills in using evidence, and her wisdom in employing proper standards, this book argues for a radical conception of epistemology as being concerned with the duties that arise during the process of belief formation.
Author
Formats
Description
Tackles the problem of fixing the tenacity of believers in forming, holding, and modifying beliefs. in conversation with the history of philosophy and religion, the author attempts to expose and refute some aspects of the dominant epistemological framework for engaging belief fixation and improvement. In contrast to this framework, Dr. Frazier provides a model of responsible believing agent rooted in an ethic of the intellectual virtue tradition....
Author
Series
Studies in critical social sciences volume Volume 128
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (347 pages).





