595 Citations
SOME REFLECTIONS ON EPISTEMIC JUSTIFICATION
- Philosophy
- 2016
The aim of this paper is to define a plausible concept of epistemic justification for empirical knowledge of the external world and to investigate whether it is possible to justify beliefs. Three…
Replies to commentators
- Philosophy
- 2016
In my 2015 book, The Myth of the Intuitive: Experimental Philosophy and Philosophical Method, I argue that intuitions are not routinely treated as evidence in philosophy and that this significantly…
Knowledge of Mathematics without Proof
- Philosophy, MathematicsThe British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
- 2015
Mathematicians do not claim to know a proposition unless they think they possess a proof of it. For all their confidence in the truth of a proposition with weighty non-deductive support (for example,…
Knowledge from knowledge: an essay on inferential knowledge
- Philosophy
- 2015
OF THE DISSERTATION Knowledge from Knowledge: An Essay on Inferential Knowledge by Rodrigo Martins Borges Dissertation Director: Peter D. Klein Under what conditions do we have inferential knowledge?…
Reliabilism and Demon World Victims
- Philosophy
- 2013
This paper defends reliabilism against the classic demon world victim thought experiment. In doing so, I underscore two of its key alleged intuitions. I then articulate a host of varied responses…
Evidence and design: An investigation of the use of evidence in the design of healthcare environments
- Business
- 2013
In construction many problems exist that lead to poor quality of the built environment, for example, lack of integration between service and facility design and poor requirements management. Aiming…
Reliabilism and Contemporary Epistemology
- Philosophy
- 2012
This paper reviews some elements of contemporary reliabilism, a dominant epistemological theory, as is presented in the recent collection of essays Reliabilism and Contemporary Epistemology (2012) by…
TR-2008010: The Logic of Justification
- Philosophy
- 2008
A general Correspondence Theorem is state showing that behind each epistemic modal logic, there is a robust system of justifications, which renders a new, evidence-based foundation for epistemic logic.
Rationality, Justification, and the Internalism/Externalism Debate
- Philosophy
- 2007
In this paper, I argue that what underlies internalism about justification is a rationalist conception of justification, not a deontological conception of justification, and I argue for the…
TR-2007019: Justification Logic
- Philosophy
- 2007
A general Correspondence Theorem is stated showing that behind each epistemic modal logic, there is a robust system of justifications, which renders a new, evidence-based foundation for epistemic logic.