Essays about: "universal epistemic justification"
Found 3 essays containing the words universal epistemic justification.
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1. Why Induction, but not Deduction, is a Legitimate Source of Justified Aesthetic Belief
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Avdelningen för estetikAbstract : What, if any, kind of inferential reasoning can be a legitimate source of justified aesthetic belief? Looking at deductive and inductive reasoning respectively, this paper concludes that only the latter can be formulated so that there is reason to accept the premises as true and thus justify the conclusion. This follows from considerations about the type of generalisations that the arguments rely on. READ MORE
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2. The Sovereignty of Subjectivity : Pursuing a Philosophically Optimal Justification of Claims Affirming the Existence of Universal Human Rights
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionenAbstract : The United Nation’s mandate to engineer international peacecraft is correlated with the promotion of universal human rights. Universal human rights are held to apply consistently to everyone everywhere without conceivable exception. There is some debate as to whether universal human rights possibly exist. READ MORE
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3. True Belief at the End of the Tether : the Quest for Universal Epistemic Justification
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation; Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakultetenAbstract : In this thesis I scavenge the history of philosophy for answers to the question ‘How are claims to knowledge justified?’. I argue that Plato’s psychological doctrine of knowledge marks the starting point of a philosophical inquiry motivated by the possibility to discover foundations of knowledge through investigating the nature of mind. READ MORE
