Naslov
Bishop and Trout on Reasoning

Autori
Smokrović, Nenad

Izvornik
Croatian journal of philosophy (1333-1108) 20 (2007), 2; 287-294

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, pregledni rad, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
Epistemology; Aneliorative psychology; Reliabilism

Sažetak
The book brings fresh insights into contemporary epistemology and, more mportantly, it radicalizes and sharpens recent naturalistic approaches, which keeps it in line with some similar approaches to epistemology (like, for instance, Nozick?s in The Nature of Rationality, ch. III, Henderson?s in ?Epistemic Competence and Contextualist Epistemology?, The Journal of Philosophy 91 (1994), 627?49, and R. Cummins?s in his criticism of refl ective equilibrium). It shares two common traits with them: ameliorative character of the proposed alternative approach to standard analytic epistemology, and extensive criticism of this classical analytic epistemology. Ameliorativism is a twofold thesis: there is bad news, people are endowed with relatively unreliable, and therefore poor, reasoning strategies ; and the good news is that such strategies can (and should) be repaired or even substituted with more reliable ones. Classical or standard analytic epistemology is usually conceived as a thesis claiming that our reasoning processes are to be justifi ed, and the justifi cation procedure is crucially taken to have a form of internal, refl ective acceptance of beliefs as an output of these processes. The ameliorativists take this characteristic as a target of their criticism.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

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