dc.contributor.author |
Tucker, Christopher |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2012-03-12T20:31:02Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2010-11-02 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Philosophical Studies 157:323-340 02 Nov 2010 |
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dc.identifier.issn |
0031-8116 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2292/13989 |
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dc.description.abstract |
Does inferential justification require the subject to be aware that her premises support her conclusion? Externalists tend to answer ‘‘no’’ and internalists tend to answer ‘‘yes’’. In fact, internalists often hold the strong higher-level requirement that an argument justifies its conclusion only if the subject justifiably believes that her premises support her conclusion. I argue for a middle ground. Against most externalists, I argue that inferential justification requires that one be aware that her premises support her conclusion. Against many internalists, I argue that this higher-level awareness needn’t be doxastic or justified. I also argue that the required higher-level awareness needn’t be caused in some appropriate way, e.g. by a reliable or properly functioning faculty. I suspect that this weaker higher-level requirement is overlooked because, at first glance, it seems absurd to allow nondoxastic, unjustified, and unreliably-caused higher-level awareness to contribute to inferential justification. One of the central goals of this paper is to explain how such weak awareness can make an essential contribution to inferential justification. |
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dc.description.uri |
http://www.springerlink.com/content/e36615840320574h/fulltext.pdf |
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dc.publisher |
Springer Verlag |
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dc.relation.ispartofseries |
Philosophical Studies |
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dc.rights |
Items in ResearchSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated. Previously published items are made available in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Details obtained from: http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/0031-8116/ |
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dc.rights.uri |
https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htm |
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dc.title |
Movin' on Up: Higher-Level Requirements and Inferential Justification |
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dc.type |
Journal Article |
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dc.identifier.doi |
10.1007/s11098-010-9650-9 |
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pubs.begin-page |
323 |
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pubs.volume |
157 |
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dc.rights.holder |
Copyright: Springer Verlag |
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pubs.end-page |
340 |
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pubs.publication-status |
Published |
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dc.rights.accessrights |
http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/RestrictedAccess |
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pubs.subtype |
Article |
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pubs.elements-id |
174372 |
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pubs.record-created-at-source-date |
2010-11-09 |
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