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Arguments Against Peter Klein's Infinitism, Jason A Dewitt
Arguments Against Peter Klein's Infinitism, Jason A Dewitt
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Virtue, Evidence, And Epistemic Justification, Alexander Steven Hallam
Virtue, Evidence, And Epistemic Justification, Alexander Steven Hallam
Doctoral Dissertations
Evidence is a central concept in epistemology and more narrowly, theories of epistemic justification. Evidence is commonly thought to be what justifies our beliefs. On this view, a belief is justified for a person if that belief fits that person’s total body of evidence. But it is also commonly thought that evidence isn’t the only thing that justifies a belief. Some epistemologists even think that evidence isn’t what justifies a belief at all. Virtue epistemologists give epistemic or intellectual virtues an important and fundamental role in theories of epistemic justification. On such views, for a belief to be epistemically justified, …