UID:
almafu_9960821765902883
Format:
1 online resource (72 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-009-06237-9
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1-009-06256-5
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1-009-05332-9
Series Statement:
Cambridge elements. Elements in epistemology
Content:
Perhaps the most fundamental question of epistemology asks on what grounds our knowledge of the world ultimately rests. The traditional Cartesian answer is that it rests on indubitable facts arrived at through rational insight or introspection. Coherentists reject this answer, claiming instead that knowledge arises from relations of coherence or mutual support: if our beliefs cohere, we can be sure that they are mostly true. The first part of this Element introduces the reader to the main ideas and problems of coherentism. The next part describes the 'probabilistic turn', leading up to recent demonstrations that coherence fails to be conducive to truth. The final part reassesses the current debate about the proper definition of coherence from the standpoint of Rudolf Carnap's methodology of explication. The upshot is a tentative and qualified defence of one of the early coherence measures.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 31 Aug 2022).
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Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Coherentism -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Coherentism and the Problems of Epistemology - The Early Debate -- 2.1 The Promises of Coherentism -- 2.2 Defining Coherence - Some Early Attempts -- 2.3 Coherence and Truth -- 2.4 Coherence as an Answer to the Radical Skeptic -- 2.5 Coherence and Abduction -- 3 The Probabilistic Turn in Coherentist Epistemology -- 3.1 The Final Solution to the Truth Problem -- 3.2 The Impossibility of Truth-Conducive Measures of Coherence -- 3.3 Beyond Truth-Conduciveness -- 4 Beyond Conceptual Analysis -- 4.1 Carnap's Method of Explication -- 4.2 Explicationist Epistemology -- 5 Explicating Coherence -- 5.1 Early Accounts of Coherence as Explications -- 5.2 The Shogenji Measure as an Explication of Coherence -- 5.3 The Glass-Olsson Measure as an Explication of Coherence -- 5.4 Koscholke and Schippers on Coherence Measuresas Explications -- 5.5 Against Subset Measures of Coherence -- 6 Conclusion -- Appendix A: Proposed Measures of Coherence -- Appendix B: Proposed Test Cases for Measures of Coherence -- References.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781009055123
Language:
English
Subjects:
Philosophy
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009053327
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