04686oam 2200613I 450 991079714270332120230807215826.01-315-69462-X1-317-44013-710.4324/9781315694627 (CKB)3710000000421744(EBL)3569278(SSID)ssj0001573589(PQKBManifestationID)16227475(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001573589(PQKBWorkID)14841047(PQKB)10342149(MiAaPQ)EBC3569278(OCoLC)958107089(EXLCZ)99371000000042174420180706e20151990 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe reliability of the cognitive mechanism a mechanist account of empirical justification /W.J. TalbottLondon ;New York :Routledge,2015.1 online resource (274 p.)Routledge Library Editions : Epistemology ;Volume 13First published in 1990.1-138-90892-4 1-138-90616-6 Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-201).""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Original Title""; ""Original Copyright""; ""Preface ""; ""Preface References ""; ""Acknowledgements ""; ""Contents""; ""CHAPTER I. Introduction""; ""justification and Justification (1)""; ""Some Terminological Difficulties: Justification for Xing a Y""; ""Justification and Inference""; ""Actual and Potential Inferences""; ""A Clash of Paradigms""; ""Outline of the Strategy""; ""Summary""; ""CHAPTER II. The Inferentialist Paradigm: The Formal Analysis""; ""Summary""; ""CHAPTER III. Foundationalism""; ""Inductive Inference""""Inductive Probability""""Probabilistic Analyses of Acceptance""; ""The (Partial) Analysis of Inductive Inference by Deductive Relations""; ""Inferential Priority""; ""The Revisability of Observation Statements""; ""Theoretical Seeing""; ""The Theoretical Commitments of Observation Statements (1)""; ""Conventionalism""; ""Equal Priority ""; ""The Theoretical Commitments of Observation Statements (2)""; ""Probabilistic Premises""; ""Observation Statements as Statements Describing Experience""; ""A New Foundationalist Alternative""; ""Conclusion""; ""Summary""""CHAPTER IV. Our Cognitive Mechanism""""Empirical Beliefs: Beliefs Based on Observation""; ""Inferences and ""Inferences""""; """"Inferential"" Support""; ""Summary""; ""CHAPTER V. Infallibility and Reliability""; ""Infallibility""; ""Reliability (1)""; ""Statistical Probability""; ""Reliability (2)""; ""Reference Predicates That Say Too Little""; ""Reference Predicates That Say Too Much""; ""Reliability, Probability, and Relative Frequencies""; ""The Random Confidence Generator""; ""The Reliability of One's Own Faculties""""Non-Statistical Interpretations of Probability: The Mystery of the Missing Reference Predicate""""Confidence Assignments That Are Unreliably High (or Low) ""; ""Decisiveness""; ""Summary""; ""CHAPTER VI. More About Our Cognitive Mechanism""; ""Probabilistic ""Inferences""""; ""The ""Self-Correcting"" Feature of Our Cognitive Mechanism""; ""Summary""; ""CHAPTER VII. justification""; ""justification By Cause""; ""justified Assignments of Confidence and justified Beliefs""; ""The Causal Transmission of justification and of unjustification""; ""justification and ""Self-Correction"" """"Normative Theories of Justification""""Armchair Theories of Justification""; ""justification and Justification (2)""; ""Summary""; ""CHAPTER VIII. Justification""; ""Justificationi and Justificationr""; ""Empirical Justification""; ""The Comparison with Pragmatic Theories of Justification""; ""The Comparison with Foundationalism""; ""The Justificatory Role of Observation""; ""The Justifiedr Behaviorist""; ""The Comparison with Coherence Theories""; ""Descriptive Coherence Theories""; ""Normative Coherence Theories""; ""Theories With Classical Logic Built Into Them""; ""Conclusion""""The Requirement of Consistency""Routledge Library Editions: EpistemologyJustification (Theory of knowledge)Mechanism (Philosophy)Justification (Theory of knowledge)Mechanism (Philosophy)121.6Talbott W. J.934093MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910797142703321The reliability of the cognitive mechanism3751491UNINA