Evolutionary Debunking Arguments Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy 1st Edition by Diego E Machuca ISBN 9780367458447 0367458446

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Author: Diego E Machuca

Evolutionary Debunking Arguments Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy 1st Edition Table of contents:

1 Introduction

1.1 Overview

1.2 Preview of the Essays

Notes

References

Part I Ethics

2 Debunking What?

2.1 The Problem

2.2 Epistemic and Practical Debunking

2.3 The Entanglement Objection

2.4 Debunking de dicto and de re

2.5 Resistance, Retreat, or Capitulation

2.6 The End

Notes

References

3 The Evolutionary Debunking of Quasi-Realism

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Evolutionary(+) Explanations of Moral Beliefs

3.3 Debunking Arguments

3.4 Is Quasi-Realism Vulnerable to Debunking Arguments?

3.5 Reliability Challenges

3.6 Does Quasi-Realism Face a Reliability Challenge?

3.7 Why the Challenge Is Challenging

3.8 Strategies for Addressing the Challenge

3.8.1 Denial

3.8.2 Answers

3.9 Conclusion

Notes

References

4 Fine-Tuning the Darwinian Dilemma

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Street’s “Darwinian Dilemma”

4.3 Coincidences

4.3.1 Conceptual Analysis

4.3.2 Is a Coincidence Required?

4.4 Probability and Surprise

4.5 An Appeal to Chances?

4.6 The Fine-Tuning Analogy

4.6.1 The Fine-Tuning Problem

4.6.2 The Coincidence Problem and the Fine-Tuning Analogy

4.7 … and the Lord Taketh Away

4.7.1 Problems with the Principle of Indifference

4.7.2 Problems with Unbounded Ranges

4.7.3 Fine-Tuning and Theism

4.8 Summary and Conclusion

Notes

References

5 Virtue Epistemology and Evolutionary Debunking of Morality

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Global Evolutionary Debunking Arguments

5.3 Modally Secure Moral Beliefs

5.4 The Achievement Conception of Undercutting Defeat

5.5 New Questions and Constraints for Global Evolutionary Debunking

5.6 Undercutting Abilities

5.7 Undercutting Creditability

5.8 Conclusion

Notes

References

Part II Philosophy of Religion

6 Debunking Arguments in Parallel: The Cases of Moral Belief and Theistic Belief

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Formulating Debunking Arguments

6.3 The Scope of Debunking Arguments

6.4 The Counterfactual Formulation

6.5 The Explanatory and Probabilistic Formulations

6.6 The Companions in Guilt Formulation

6.7 Conclusion

Notes

References

7 Rationalization, Reasons, and Religion

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Debunking Arguments and the Religious Reasons Reply

7.3 Rationalization and Rationality

7.4 Evidence of Religious Rationalization

7.4.1 CSR Explanations

7.4.2 Confirmation Bias

7.4.3 Positive Self-Illusions

7.4.4 Cognitive Dissonance

7.4.5 Motivated Reasoning

7.4.6 Epistemic Sheltering and Indoctrination

7.4.7 Love

7.4.8 Spiritual Kindling

7.5 Deflecting the Case for Rationalization

7.5.1 Rich Testimony

7.5.2 Epistemic Benefits of Love and Epistemic Paternalism

7.5.3 Epistemically Self-Promoting Propositions

Notes

References

8 Natural Nonbelief in God: Prehistoric Humans, Divine Hiddenness, and Debunking

8.1 Introduction

8.2 The Problem of Natural Nonbelief

8.3 Was NN Prevalent among Prehistoric Humans?

8.3.1 The Cognitive Science of Religion

8.3.2 The Ethnographic Record and Ethnographic Analogy

8.3.3 The Cultural Evolution of Religion

8.3.4 The Archaeological Record

8.4 Would NN Be Surprising Given Theism?

8.5 Conclusion: The Common Consent Argument for Theism

Notes

References

9 Milvian Bridges in Science, Religion, and Theology: Debunking Arguments and Cultural Evolution

9.1 Introduction

9.2 The EDA of Griffiths and Wilkins

9.3 An Internalist Response to EDAs

9.4 Context Biases and Cultural Evolution: Milvian Bridge Reconstructed

9.5 Expert Beliefs in Science and Religion

9.6 Folk Beliefs in Science and Religion

9.7 Conclusion

Notes

References

Part III Philosophy of Mathematics

10 The Epistemological Challenge to Robust Mathematical Platonism: A New Hope?

10.1 Introduction

10.2 The Benacerraf–Field Challenge

10.3 “Non-Robust” Responses to the Benacerraf–Field Challenge

10.4 Enoch’s Defense of Robust Metanormative Realism

10.5 A “Third-Factor” Defense of Robust Arithmetic Platonism

10.6 Extending the Strategy

10.7 How Does This Strategy Differ from Linnebo’s “Boring Explanation”?

10.8 Is Field’s Version of the Benacerraf Challenge the Real Epistemological Challenge for Platonism?

10.9 Conclusion

Notes

References

11 What Logical Knowledge Is Needed to Account for Our Mathematical Knowledge

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Formulating EDAs

11.2.1 Traditional Approaches and Easy Answers

11.2.2 The Benefits of Being Lazy

11.2.3 Special Reasons for Distrust?

11.3 Mathematical EDAs and Knowledge of Logical Coherence

11.3.1 The Structuralist Consensus

11.3.2 How Much Logical Knowledge?

11.4 Conclusion

Notes

References

Part IV Metaphysics and Epistemology

12 On Debunking Color Realism

12.1 Introduction

12.2 Robust Realism

12.3 From Color-Free Explanations to Defeat

12.4 Evolutionary Explanations

12.5 Easy Possibilities

12.6 Coincidental Accuracy

12.7 Conclusion

Notes

References

13 Debunking, Theoretical Indispensability, and Irreducible Epistemic Rationality

13.1 The Basic Debunking Argument

13.2 Conceptual Excavation for Tacit Epistemic Rationality Norms

13.2.1 Methodological Preliminaries

13.2.2 Digging for Tacit Rationality Norms

13.3 The Cartesian Gambit: Methodic Doubt

13.4 The Theoretical Indispensability of Epistemic Rationality Norms

13.5 Hume’s Law and Epistemic Irreducibility

13.6 Conclusion

Notes

References

14 Global Debunking Arguments

14.1 Introduction

14.2 Global Defeaters Cannot Be Defeated

14.2.1 Global Debunking Arguments, the Evolutionary Argument against Naturalism, and the XX Pill Case

14.2.2 Three Theses About Defeating Global Defeaters

14.3 Three Types of Global Debunking Argument

14.3.1 Pure-Undercutter

14.3.2 The Undercutter-Because-Rebutter

14.3.3 Undercutters-While-Rebutters

14.4 The Conditionalization Problem

14.4.1 Explaining the Problem

14.4.2 Epistemic Origin Stories

14.4.3 A Solution to the Conditionalization Problem*

14.4.4 EO-Solution and Two Objections to EAAN

Notes

References

15 Global Evolutionary Arguments: Self-Defeat, Circularity, and Skepticism about Reason

15.1 Introduction

15.2 The EDA and Self-Defeat

15.3 The EVA and Circularity

15.4 Aporetic Reason

15.4.1 Self-Undermining Reason

15.4.2 Virtuous Circularity?

15.4.3 Skepticism about Reason

15.5 Conclusion

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