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BL
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728288
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b548026
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Hamid Vahid.
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| Title & Author
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Epistemic justification and the skeptical challenge\ Hamid Vahid.
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| Publication Statement
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
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(ix, 236 pages)
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0230596215
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: 9780230596214
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| Contents
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Acknowledgements --;Introduction --;PART 1: EPISTEMIC JUSTIFICATION --;Introduction --;Elements of a Theory of Justification --;Deontological Conception of Justification --;The Internalism/Externalism Divide --;PART 2: THE SKEPTICAL CHALLENGE --;The Problem of the Criterion --;Universalizability and Closure --;Skepticism and Underdetermination --;PART 3: MEETING THE SKEPTICAL CHALLENGE? --;Argument from the Principle of Charity --;Argument from Epistemic Conservatism --;Argument from Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE) --;The Epistemological Significance of Transcendental Arguments --;Notes --;References --;Index.
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| Abstract
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Providing critical examination of key responses to the skeptical challenge, Hamid Vahid presents a theory which is shown to work alongside the internalism/externalism issue and the thesis of semantic externalism, with a deontological conception of justification at its core.
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History of Western philosophy.
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Justification (Theory of knowledge)
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PHILOSOPHY -- Epistemology.
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BD212.H365 2005
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Hamid Vahid
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