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An African Epistemological Approach to Epistemic Certitude and

by Anselm Thomas
"... The certainty of our epistemic claims, which logically implies the defeat of scepticism has for long been an issue in epistemology. To be certain about an epistemic claim is to assert that such epistemic claim is either immune to scepticism or is more warranted than any sceptical consideration; this ..."
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The certainty of our epistemic claims, which logically implies the defeat of scepticism has for long been an issue in epistemology. To be certain about an epistemic claim is to assert that such epistemic claim is either immune to scepticism or is more warranted than any sceptical consideration

Epistemic Luck

by Duncan Pritchard , 2005
"... Abstract: It is maintained that the arguments put forward by Bernard Williams and Thomas Nagel in their widely influential exchange on the problem of moral luck are marred by a failure to (i) present a coherent understanding of what is involved in the notion of luck, and (ii) adequately distinguish ..."
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between the problem of moral luck and the analogue problem of epistemic luck, especially that version of the problem that is traditionally presented by the epistemological sceptic. It is further claimed that once one offers a more developed notion of luck and disambiguates the problem of moral luck from

Epistemic vigilance

by Dan Sperber, Christophe Heintz, Olivier Mascaro, Hugo Mercier, Gloria Origgi, Deirdre Wilson - Mind and Language , 2010
"... Abstract: Humans massively depend on communication with others, but this leaves them open to the risk of being accidentally or intentionally misinformed. To ensure that, despite this risk, communication remains advantageous, humans have, we claim, a suite of cognitive mechanisms for epistemic vigila ..."
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Abstract: Humans massively depend on communication with others, but this leaves them open to the risk of being accidentally or intentionally misinformed. To ensure that, despite this risk, communication remains advantageous, humans have, we claim, a suite of cognitive mechanisms for epistemic

Epistemics with attitude

by Pranav Anand, Valentine Hacquard - Cornell University , 2008
"... In the Hintikkan tradition, attitude verbs are treated uniformly as universal quantifiers over possible worlds, where the sole difference between various attitudes is in the accessibility relation that determines the set of worlds they quantify over. Believe, want and say quantify respectively over ..."
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worlds compatible with the beliefs, desires, claims of the attitude holder. In this paper, we discuss two distributional puzzles which argue against such a uniform picture. The first puzzle concerns the distribution of epistemic modals in the scope of attitudes: epistemics can appear in the complement

Epistemic Dispositions

by In Briggs
"... theory of knowledge might do well to appeal to dispositions rather than counterfactuals. (Gundersen 2003 and 2010 makes a similar suggestion, though he prefers a dispositional account of counterfactuals that enables him to retain a conditional tracking analysis.) John Turri (2012) and Ben Bronner (2 ..."
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(2012) have offered a series of purported counterexamples to the dispositionalised Nozickian view we suggest. We question whether the Turri and Bronner cases are genuine counterexamples. Instead, we claim, the cases reveal a number of interesting choice points for theories of epistemic dispositions. We

SCEPTICISM, EPISTEMIC LUCK, AND EPISTEMIC ANGST

by Duncan Pritchard
"... A commonly expressed worry in the contemporary literature on the problem of epistemological scepticism is that there is something deeply intellectually unsatisfying about the dominant anti-sceptical theories. In this paper I outline the main approaches to scepticism and argue that they each fail to ..."
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to capture what is essential to the sceptical challenge because they fail to fully understand the role that the problem of epistemic luck plays in that challenge. I further argue that scepticism is best thought of not as a quandary directed at our possession of knowledge simpliciter, but rather as concerned

2003, ‘Some Epistemic Indefinites

by Luis Alonso-ovalle, Paula Menéndez-benito - Proceedings of the North East Linguistic Society, 33, GLSA
"... Across languages, we find indefinites that overtly mark a speaker’s lack of knowledge: they signal that the speaker is unable to give any further information about who or what satisfies her existential claim (Becker, 1999; Haspelmath, 1997). From now on, we will refer to the marking of the speaker’s ..."
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Across languages, we find indefinites that overtly mark a speaker’s lack of knowledge: they signal that the speaker is unable to give any further information about who or what satisfies her existential claim (Becker, 1999; Haspelmath, 1997). From now on, we will refer to the marking of the speaker

On Epistemic Temporal Strategic Logic

by Sieuwert Van Otterloo, Geert Jonker - In Proceedings of LCMAS , 2004
"... Abstract. ATEL is one of the most expressive logics for reasoning about knowledge, time and strategies. Several issues around the interpretation of this logic are still unresolved. This paper contributes to the ongoing discussion by showing that agents do not have to know a specific strategy for doi ..."
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for doing something in order to have a capability. Furthermore we claim that agents can possess so-called strategic knowledge that is derived from their knowledge of strategies being played. In order to prove these claims we present an alternative interpretation of ATEL over extensive game forms

Disentangling evidentiality and epistemic modality.

by Mario Squartini - Lingua , 2004
"... Abstract In this article the semantics of the French, Italian and Spanish modals devoir/dovere/ deber+infinitive will be analyzed, claiming that they not only express epistemic and deontic modality, but also reportive evidentiality. Comparing the three languages, it will be demonstrated that the re ..."
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Abstract In this article the semantics of the French, Italian and Spanish modals devoir/dovere/ deber+infinitive will be analyzed, claiming that they not only express epistemic and deontic modality, but also reportive evidentiality. Comparing the three languages, it will be demonstrated

Dispositional versus epistemic causality

by Jon Williamson - Minds and Machines , 2006
"... I put forward several desiderata that a philosophical theory of causality should satisfy: it should account for the objectivity of causality, it should underpin formalisms for causal reasoning, it should admit a viable epistemology, it should be able to cope with the great variety of causal claims t ..."
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I put forward several desiderata that a philosophical theory of causality should satisfy: it should account for the objectivity of causality, it should underpin formalisms for causal reasoning, it should admit a viable epistemology, it should be able to cope with the great variety of causal claims
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