Coherentism by Erik J Olsson
Perhaps the most fundamental question of epistemology asks on what grounds our knowledge of the world ultimately rests. The traditional Cartesian answer is that it rests on indubitable facts arrived at through rational insight or introspection. Coherentists reject this answer, claiming instead that knowledge arises from relations of coherence or mutual support: if our beliefs cohere, we can be sure that they are mostly true. The first part of this Element introduces the reader to the main ideas and problems of coherentism. The next part describes the 'probabilistic turn', leading up to recent demonstrations that coherence fails to be conducive to truth. The final part reassesses the current debate about the proper definition of coherence from the standpoint of Rudolf Carnap's methodology of explication. The upshot is a tentative and qualified defence of one of the early coherence measures.- Knowledge-To in Classical Confucianism
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Justifying Memory
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An Anti-Sceptical Metaphysics and Epistemology of Perception
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Shifty Epistemology
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Reliabilism and its Rivals
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Sincerity and Insincerity
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Higher-Order Evidence and Calibrationism
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On Believing and Being Convinced
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Knowing What It Is Like
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The Indispensability of Intuitions
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Transcendental Epistemology
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The Epistemic Consequences of Paradox
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Philosophy, Bullshit, and Peer Review
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The Skeptic and the Veridicalist
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Stratified Virtue Epistemology
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Aesthetic Knowledge
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The Epistemology of Logic
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Disagreement
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Deception and Self-Deception
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Emotional Self-Knowledge
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Knowledge-First Epistemology
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Knowledge and God
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The A Priori without Magic
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Defining Knowledge
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Foundationalism
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Wisdom
Erik J. Olsson is Professor and Chair in Theoretical Philosophy at Lund University, Sweden
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| ISBN 13 | 9781009055123 |
| ISBN 10 | 1009055127 |
| Title | Coherentism |
| Author | Erik J Olsson |
| Series | Elements In Epistemology |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2022-09-08 |
| Number of pages | 75 |
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