Reason and explanation: a defense of explanatory coherentism
Auteur :
Poston, T.
Éditeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN :
9781349436552
Date de publication :
1 janv. 2014
Dimensions :
21,6 x 14,0 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
In this new explanationist account of epistemic justification, Poston argues that the explanatory virtues provide all the materials necessary for a plausible account of justified belief. There are no purely autonomous reasons. Rather reasons occur only within an explanatory coherent set of beliefs.