Justification as Ignorance
Author | : Sven Rosenkranz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2021 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780198865636 |
ISBN-13 | : 0198865635 |
Rating | : 4/5 (635 Downloads) |
Download or read book Justification as Ignorance written by Sven Rosenkranz and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Justification as Ignorance offers an original account of epistemic justification as both non-factive and luminous, vindicating core internalist intuitions without construing justification as an internal condition knowable by reflection alone. Sven Rosenkranz conceives of justification, in its doxastic and propositional varieties, as a kind of epistemic possibility of knowing and of being in a position to know. His account contrasts with recent alternative views that characterize justification in terms of the metaphysical possibility of knowing. Instead, he develops a suitable non-normal multi-modal epistemic logic for knowledge and being in a position to know that respects the finding that these notions create hyperintensional contexts. He also defends his conception of justification against well-known anti-luminosity arguments, shows that the account allows for fruitful applications and principled solutions to the lottery and preface paradoxes, and provides a metaphysics of justification and its varying degrees of strength that is compatible with core assumptions of the knowledge-first approach and disjunctivist conceptions of mental states.