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EXPLANATIONIST REBUTTALS (COHERENTISM DEFENDED AGAIN)
Author(s) -
LYCAN WILLIAM G.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
the southern journal of philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.281
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 2041-6962
pISSN - 0038-4283
DOI - 10.1111/j.2041-6962.2011.00087.x
Subject(s) - coherentism , conservatism , relativism , impossibility , coherence (philosophical gambling strategy) , epistemology , philosophy , agnosticism , bayesian probability , psychology , law , foundationalism , political science , mathematics , statistics , politics
An explanatory coherence theory of justification is sketched and then defended against a number of recent objections: conservatism and relativism; wild and crazy beliefs; reliability; warranted necessary falsehoods; basing; distant, unknown coherences; Sosa's “self‐ and present‐abstracts”; and Bayesian impossibility results.