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Autore: | Talbott W. J. |
Titolo: | The reliability of the cognitive mechanism : a mechanist account of empirical justification / / W.J. Talbott |
Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
Disciplina: | 121.6 |
Soggetto topico: | Justification (Theory of knowledge) |
Mechanism (Philosophy) | |
Note generali: | First published in 1990. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-201). |
Nota di contenuto: | ""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"" | |
Titolo autorizzato: | The reliability of the cognitive mechanism |
ISBN: | 1-315-69462-X |
1-317-44013-7 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910797142703321 |
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