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Reason and Explanation: A Defense of Explanatory Coherentism

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Availability:In StockContributor:T. PostonSeries:Palgrave Innovations in PhilosophyPublish date:8/13/2014Pages:195
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Palgrave MacMillanISBN-13:9781137012258ISBN-10:1137012250UPC:9781137012258Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:EpistemologySize:8.60 x 5.70 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.386Product ID:SCHF4V7MN3
In this new explanationist account of epistemic justification, Poston argues that the explanatory virtues provide all the materials necessary for a plausible account of justified belief. There are no purely autonomous reasons. Rather reasons occur only within an explanatory coherent set of beliefs.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Palgrave MacMillanISBN-13:9781137012258ISBN-10:1137012250UPC:9781137012258Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:EpistemologySize:8.60 x 5.70 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.386Product ID:SCHF4V7MN3
Ted Poston is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Alabama, USA. His primary areas of research are epistemology and philosophy of science. He has written many articles in journals such as American Philosophical Quarterly, Dialectica, Episteme, Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy and Phenomenology Research, Res Philosophica, and The Southern Journal of Philosophy.



Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan

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2014 Edition

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T. Poston

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T. Poston

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