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Empirical Justification

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  • © 1985

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Authors:
  1. Paul K. Moser

    1. Department of Philosophy, Loyola University of Chicago, USA

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Part of the book series: Philosophical Studies Series (PSSP, volume 34)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Justification and the Regress Problem

    • Paul K. Moser
    Pages 1-28

  3. Epistemic Contextualism: Justification via the Unjustified

    • Paul K. Moser
    Pages 29-58

  4. Epistemic Coherentism: “Circles” of Justification

    • Paul K. Moser
    Pages 59-106

  5. Epistemic Foundationalism (I): Infinite Regresses, Externalism, and Reliabilism

    • Paul K. Moser
    Pages 107-140

  6. Epistemic Foundationalism (II): Epistemic Intuitionism

    • Paul K. Moser
    Pages 141-210

  7. Epilogue: The Epistemic and the Rational

    • Paul K. Moser
    Pages 211-238

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 239-263
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About this book

Broadly speaking, this is a book about truth and the criteria thereof. Thus it is, in a sense, a book about justification and rationality. But it does not purport to be about the notion of justification or the notion of rationality. For the assumption that there is just one notion of justification, or just one notion of rationality, is, as the book explains, very misleading. Justification and rationality come in various kinds. And to that extent, at least, we should recognize a variety of notions of justification and rationality. This, at any rate, is one of the morals of Chapter VI. This book, in Chapters I-V, is mainly concerned with the kind of justification and rationality characteristic of a truth-seeker, specifically a seeker of truth about the world impinging upon the senses: the so-called empirical world. Hence the book's title. But since the prominent contemporary approaches to empirical justification are many and varied, so also are the epistemological issues taken up in the following chapters. For instance, there will be questions about so-called coherence and its role, if any, in empirical justification. And there will be questions about social consensus (whatever it is) and its significance, or the lack thereof, to empirical justification. Furthermore, the perennial question of whether, and if so how, empirical knowledge has so-called founda­ tions will be given special attention.

Reviews

`Moser's Empirical Justification is an original and rigorously argued book. It subjects externalist epistemological theories to some of the most far-reaching criticism they have yet received, and it systematically develops an alternative theory significant in its own right.'
Robert Audi, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
`The book makes an original contribution to the contemporary interest in theories of justification - not just because it presents very interesting and quite well-grounded criticisms of many of the current views, but because in developing his own account of intuitionistic foundationalism, Moser has presented a view which will, no doubt, receive much attention.'
Prof. P. Klein, Rutgers University

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, Loyola University of Chicago, USA

    Paul K. Moser

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Empirical Justification

  • Authors: Paul K. Moser

  • Series Title: Philosophical Studies Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4526-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1985

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2041-2Published: 30 November 1985

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2042-9Published: 30 November 1985

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-4526-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0921-8599

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8349

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 258

  • Topics: Epistemology

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