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Skilful Reflection As An Epistemic Virtue, Chienkuo Mi, Shane Ryan
Skilful Reflection As An Epistemic Virtue, Chienkuo Mi, Shane Ryan
Research Collection School of Social Sciences
This paper advances the claim that skilful reflection is a master virtue in that skilful reflection shapes and corrects the other epistemic and intellectual virtues. We make the case that skilful reflection does this with both competence-based epistemic virtues and character-based intellectual virtues. In making the case that skilful reflection is a master virtue, we identify the roots of ideas central to our thesis in Confucian philosophy. In particular, we discuss the Confucian conception of reflection, as well as different levels of epistemic virtue. Next we set out the Dual Process Hypothesis of Reflection, which provides an explanation of the …
Sinologism: An Alternative To Orientalism And Postcolonialism, Steven Burik
Sinologism: An Alternative To Orientalism And Postcolonialism, Steven Burik
Research Collection School of Social Sciences
At the end of the book, Gu defines Sinologism as an undeclared but tacitly administered institutionalization of the ways of observing China from the perspective of Western epistemology that refuses, or is reluctant, to view China on its own terms, and of doing scholarship on Chinese materials and producing knowledge on Chinese civilization in terms of Western methodology that tends to disregard the real conditions of China and reduce the complexity of Chinese civilization into simplistic patterns of development modelled on those of the West. While comparative philosophers can sympathize with the idea that in the humanities and to a …
Who’S The ‘We’ In ‘Our Whole Society', Justin Kh Tse
Who’S The ‘We’ In ‘Our Whole Society', Justin Kh Tse
Research Collection School of Social Sciences
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Not Knowing You Know: A New Objection To The Defeasibility Theory Of Knowledge, John N. Williams
Not Knowing You Know: A New Objection To The Defeasibility Theory Of Knowledge, John N. Williams
Research Collection School of Social Sciences
Foley (2012: 93–98) and Turri (2012: 215–19) have recently given objections to the defeasibility theory of propositional knowledge. Here, I give an objection of a quite different stripe by looking at what the theory must say about knowing that you know. I end with some remarks on how this objection relates to rival theories and how this might be a worry for some of these.
The Backward Clock, Truth-Tracking, And Safety, John N. Williams, Neil Sinhababu
The Backward Clock, Truth-Tracking, And Safety, John N. Williams, Neil Sinhababu
Research Collection School of Social Sciences
We present Backward Clock, an original counterexample to Robert Nozick’s truth-tracking analysis of propositional knowledge, which works differently from other putative counterexamples and avoids objections to which they are vulnerable. We then argue that four ways of analyzing knowledge in terms of safety, including Duncan Pritchard’s, cannot withstand Backward Clock either.
Eliminativism, Dialetheism And Moore's Paradox, John N. Williams
Eliminativism, Dialetheism And Moore's Paradox, John N. Williams
Research Collection School of Social Sciences
John Turri gives an example that he thinks refutes what he takes to be “G. E. Moore's view” that omissive assertions such as “It is raining but I do not believe that it is raining” are “inherently ‘absurd'”. This is that of Ellie, an eliminativist who makes such assertions. Turri thinks that these are perfectly reasonable and not even absurd. Nor does she seem irrational if the sincerity of her assertion requires her to believe its content. A commissive counterpart of Ellie is Di, a dialetheist who asserts or believes that: Since any adequate explanation of Moore's paradox must handle …
Heidegger And East Asian Thought, Steven Burik
Heidegger And East Asian Thought, Steven Burik
Research Collection School of Social Sciences
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Moore's Paradox In Thought: A Critical Survey, John N. Williams
Moore's Paradox In Thought: A Critical Survey, John N. Williams
Research Collection School of Social Sciences
It is raining but you don't believe that it is raining. Imagine silently accepting this claim. Then you believe both that it is raining and that you don't believe that it is raining. This would be an ‘absurd’ thing to believe, yet what you believe might be true. It might be raining, while at the same time, you are completely ignorant of the state of the weather. But how can it be absurd of you to believe something about yourself that might be true of you? This is Moore's paradox as it occurs in thought. Solving the paradox consists in …
Invaluable Justice: Heidegger, Derrida, And Daoism On Thinking Of Values And Justice, Steven Burik
Invaluable Justice: Heidegger, Derrida, And Daoism On Thinking Of Values And Justice, Steven Burik
Research Collection School of Social Sciences
What can comparative philosophy contribute to thinking about values, economics, and justice? Can we apply philosophy in general, and comparative philosophy in particular, to these problems directly? Martin Heidegger, one of the protagonists of this article, has on occasion made it clear that philosophy is literally “useless” and so let me start with one of my favourite Heidegger quotes, to give the reader an indication of what this paper tries to think: “philosophy … cannot be directly applied, or judged by its usefulness in the manner of economic or other professional knowledge. But what is useless can still be a …