LEADER 04720oam 2200625I 450 001 9910461000803321 005 20170822124104.0 010 $a1-315-69462-X 010 $a1-317-44013-7 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315694627 035 $a(CKB)3710000000421744 035 $a(EBL)3569278 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001573589 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16227475 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001573589 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14841047 035 $a(PQKB)10342149 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3569278 035 $a(OCoLC)958107089 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000421744 100 $a20180706e20151990 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe reliability of the cognitive mechanism $ea mechanist account of empirical justification /$fW.J. Talbott 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource (274 p.) 225 0 $aRoutledge Library Editions : Epistemology ;$vVolume 13 300 $aFirst published in 1990. 311 $a1-138-90892-4 311 $a1-138-90616-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 196-201). 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""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"" "" 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""The Requirement of Consistency"" 410 0$aRoutledge Library Editions: Epistemology 606 $aJustification (Theory of knowledge) 606 $aMechanism (Philosophy) 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aJustification (Theory of knowledge) 615 0$aMechanism (Philosophy) 676 $a121.6 700 $aTalbott$b W. J.$0934093 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461000803321 996 $aThe reliability of the cognitive mechanism$92103050 997 $aUNINA