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Seemings and the Foundations of Justification: A Defense of Phenomenal Conservatism

Seemings and the Foundations of Justification: A Defense of Phenomenal Conservatism

McAllister, Blake

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Epistemology

PhilosophyGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 1032247959
ISBN13: 9781032247953
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 25 2023
Pages: 278
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

All justified beliefs ultimately rest on attitudes that are immediately justified. This book illuminates the nature of immediate justification and the states that provide it. Simply put, immediate justification arises from how things appear to us--from all and only our seemings.

The author defends each aspect of this seemings foundationalism, including the assumption of foundationalism itself. Most notably, the author draws from common sense philosopher Thomas Reid to present new and improved arguments for phenomenal conservatism and gives the first systematic argument that seemings alone are capable of immediately justifying. The discussion delves deeply into the nature of seemings and how it is that their assertive phenomenal character makes them (and them alone) capable of immediately justifying. Along the way, the author makes novel contributions to perennial debates such as: internalism versus externalism, deontologism and epistemic blame, epistemic circularity, and the common sense response to skepticism.

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