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Formal Epistemology and Cartesian Skepticism: In Defense of Belief in the Natural World

By Tomoji Shogenji

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2017
ISBN
1138570184, 9781138570184
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1978854 bytes)
Series
Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
Edition
1
Pages
204\204
Time added
2017-12-31 09:50:04
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Description

This book develops new techniques in formal epistemology and applies them to the challenge of Cartesian skepticism. It introduces two formats of epistemic evaluation that should be of interest to epistemologists and philosophers of science: the dual-component format, which evaluates a statement on the basis of its safety and informativeness, and the relative-divergence format, which evaluates a probabilistic model on the basis of its complexity and goodness of fit with data. Tomoji Shogenji shows that the former lends support to Cartesian skepticism, but the latter allows us to defeat Cartesian skepticism. Along the way, Shogenji addresses a number of related issues in epistemology and philosophy of science, including epistemic circularity, epistemic closure, and inductive skepticism.

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