The Epistemological Spectrum: At the Interface of Cognitive Science and Conceptual Analysis

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 9
1. A retentive revisionary account......Page 14
2. Assembling the pieces......Page 19
2. Grades of A Priori Justification......Page 24
1. The high-grade a priori: the full package......Page 25
2. Rationalist and empiricist variations......Page 28
3. Some common ground and an orientation for the investigation......Page 34
4. Toward the low-grade a priori......Page 37
5. The reciprocal two-stage model of philosophical reflection......Page 45
6. Conclusion......Page 72
1. The agenda......Page 74
2. A fake-barn scenario: Athena and Fortuna......Page 76
3. Local reliability versus global reliability......Page 77
4. Local reliability, global reliability, and the fake-barn scenarios......Page 79
5. Global reliability as a robust disposition......Page 81
6. Safety: a constitutive requirement for justification......Page 83
7. Modulation......Page 86
8. Safety as constituted by global reliability under suitable modulational control......Page 91
9. Applying the account to the cases......Page 92
10. Local reliability as a constitutive desideratum for justification......Page 94
11. Brain lesions and clairvoyants......Page 96
12. The generality problem......Page 102
13. Summary: the neoclassical version of standard reliabilism......Page 107
1. Epistemic safety without neoclassical reliability: the new evil demon problem......Page 108
2. Neoclassical reliability without epistemic safety: Ashley the ‘Valley girl’......Page 113
3. Analogues of the Athena/Fortuna contrast......Page 116
4. Experiential safety versus de facto safety......Page 120
5. Transglobal reliabilism characterized......Page 121
6. Transglobal reliabilism elaborated......Page 122
7. Applying the central idea to the cases......Page 140
8. Knowledge......Page 144
9. Summary: replacing neoclassical reliabilism by transglobal reliabilism......Page 145
1. Overview......Page 147
2. The problem of infinities......Page 148
3. Epistemic safety, postclassical reliability, and the truth connection......Page 152
4. Key purposes served by the concept of epistemic justification......Page 154
5. Knowledge and the dual pull......Page 163
6. Comparative theoretical advantages......Page 165
7. Summary: the case for transglobal reliabilism......Page 173
6. Epistemic Competence and the Call to Naturalize Epistemology......Page 176
1. Engineering for truth-seeking......Page 177
2. Systematizing epistemic normativity: a priori aspects and richly empirical aspects......Page 181
3. Tractability: ought implies can......Page 184
4. Idealization and epistemic competence......Page 186
5. Epistemic competence and the meliorative dimension of epistemology......Page 190
6. Epistemic competence and the E-spectrum......Page 193
7. Toward a theory of epistemic competence......Page 196
8. Some relevant work in cognitive science......Page 202
9. Conclusion......Page 207
1. Overview......Page 208
2. Transglobal reliabilism and evidence-sensitivity: a bridge......Page 209
3. Reliabilism, evidential support and the being/having distinction......Page 213
4. A proto-theory of human belief-generating and belief-sustaining processes......Page 216
5. Examples of commitment to PT......Page 218
6. Variants on PT......Page 223
7. The frame problem and its morals for human belief-.xation......Page 227
8. PT rejected......Page 234
9. Dynamical cognition and morphological content......Page 236
10. The causal role of morphological content: epistemically appropriate mirroring......Page 240
11. Traditional epistemology, informational demands, and real cognitive competence......Page 249
12. Summary......Page 250
1. Two complementary foci in epistemology......Page 252
2. Traditional accounts of the structure of justification......Page 253
3. Iceberg epistemology and its revisionary consequences......Page 271
4. Summary......Page 292
Bibliography......Page 294
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