Intellectual Assurance
Essays on Traditional Epistemic Internalism
1st Edition
Published on 26. February 2016
256 pages
978-0-19-103033-8 (ISBN)
Description
This volume presents a dozen essays by prominent contemporary epistemologists providing a careful examination and critical evaluation of traditional epistemic internalism. Unlike competing versions of internalism, the guiding principle of traditional internalism is not to accommodate our commonsense nonskeptical views about the rationality of our ordinary beliefs, but to emphasize the need for strong skepticism-resistant intellectual assurance that our ordinary beliefs (perceptual and otherwise) are true. The essays focus on what traditional internalism has to say about the following three topics: the nature of non-inferentially justified belief, the nature of inferentially justified belief, and the best way to respond to skepticism. The end product is a volume containing many probing objections to traditional internalism, pushing its proponents to provide creative new defenses if they want this old-fashioned view to survive in the modern world.
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Brett Coppenger | Michael Bergmann
Intellectual Assurance
Essays on Traditional Epistemic Internalism
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02/2016
Oxford University Press
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Brett Coppenger is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Tuskegee University.
Michael Bergmann is Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University. In addition to numerous articles in epistemology and philosophy of religion in journals and edited volumes, he is author of Justification without Awareness (OUP 2006) and co-editor of Divine Evil? The Moral Character of the God of Abraham (OUP 2011), Challenges to Moral and Religious Belief: Disagreement and Evolution (OUP 2014), and Reason and Faith: Themes from Swinburne (OUP 2016).
Content
- Traditional Internalism: An Introduction
- Chapter Abstracts
- I. Traditional Internalism and Non-Inferentially Justified Belief
- Direct Acquaintance
- 1: Peter Markie: Confrontation Foundationalism
- 2: Chris Tucker: Acquaintance and Fallible Non-Inferential Justification
- 3: Matthias Steup: Foundational Justification, Meta-Justification, and Fumertonian Acquaintance
- Perceptual Belief
- 4: Berit Brogaard: Staying Indoors: How Phenomenal Dogmatism Solves the Skeptical Problem without Going Externalist
- 5: Susanna Schellenberg: Experience and Evidence Abridged
- II. Traditional Internalism and Inferentially Justified Belief
- 6: Trent Dougherty: Principles of Inferential Justification
- 7: Michael Huemer: Inferential Appearances
- III. Traditional Internalism and Skepticism
- Responding to the Skeptic
- 8: Sanford Goldberg: The Costs of Demon-Proof Justification
- 9: Ted Poston: Acquaintance and Skepticism about the Past
- Skepticism and Circularity
- 10: Duncan Pritchard and Christopher Ranalli: On Metaepistemological Scepticism
- 11: Ernest Sosa: How Our Knowledge Squares With Skeptical Intuitions Despite the Circle
- Afterword
- 12: Richard Fumerton: The Prospects for Traditional Internalism
