The Reliability of the Cognitive Mechanism: A Mechanist Account of Empirical Justification 1st Edition by William J. Talbott 9781317440130 1317440137

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• Author: William J. Talbott 

The Reliability of the Cognitive Mechanism
A Mechanist Account of Empirical Justification

Table contents:

CHAPTER I. Introduction
justification and Justification (1)
Some Terminological Difficulties: Justification for Xing a Y
Justification and Inference
Actual and Potential Inferences
A Clash of Paradigms
Outline of the Strategy
Summary
CHAPTER II. The Inferentialist Paradigm: The Formal Analysis
Summary
CHAPTER III. Foundationalism
Inductive Inference
Inductive Probability
Probabilistic Analyses of Acceptance
The (Partial) Analysis of Inductive Inference by Deductive Relations
Inferential Priority
The Revisability of Observation Statements
Theoretical Seeing
The Theoretical Commitments of Observation Statements (1)
Conventionalism
Equal Priority
The Theoretical Commitments of Observation Statements (2)
Probabilistic Premises
Observation Statements as Statements Describing Experience
A New Foundationalist Alternative
Conclusion
Summary
CHAPTER IV. Our Cognitive Mechanism
Empirical Beliefs: Beliefs Based on Observation
Inferences and “Inferences”
“Inferential” Support
Summary
CHAPTER V. Infallability and Reliability
Infallibility
Reliability (1)
Statistical Probability
Reliability (2)
Reference Predicates That Say Too Little
Reference Predicates That Say Too Much
Reliability, Probability, and Relative Frequencies
The Random Confidence Generator
The Reliability of One’s Own Faculties
Non-Statistical Interpretations of Probability: The Mystery of the Missing Reference Predicate
Confidence Assignments That Are Unreliably High (or Low)
Decisiveness
Summary
CHAPTER VI. More About Our Cognitive Mechanism
Probabilistic “Inferences”
The “Self-Correcting” Feature of Our Cognitive Mechanism
Summary
CHAPTER VII. Justification
justification by Cause
justified Assignments of Confidence and justified Beliefs
The Causal Transmission of justification and of unjustification
justification and “Self-Correction”
Normative Theories of Justification
Armchair Theories of Justification
justification and Justification (2)
Summary
CHAPTER VIII. Justification
Justificationiand Justificationr
Empirical Justification
The Comparison with Pragmatic Theories of Justification
The Comparison with Foundationalism
The Justificatory Role of Observation
The JustifiedrBehaviorist
The Comparison with Coherence Theories2
Descriptive Coherence Theories
Normative Coherence Theories
Theories With Classical Logic Built Into Them
Conclusion
The Requirement of Consistency
JustificationrHas Nothing Built Into It
Summary
CHAPTER IX. Justification and Skepticism: The Connection with Truth
Justification and Truth
The Threat of Skepticism
The General Skeptical Argument
Special Skeptical Arguments
Being Justified and Giving One’s Justification
Conclusion

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