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A Theory of Epistemic Justification (Hardcover, 2009 ed.)
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A Theory of Epistemic Justification (Hardcover, 2009 ed.)
Series: Philosophical Studies Series, 112
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One goal of epistemology is to refute the skeptic. Another, with an
equally dist- guished if briefer pedigree, is to make sense of
science as a knowledge-acquiring enterprise. The goals are
incompatible, in that the latter presupposes that the skeptic is
wrong. The incompatibility is not strict. One could have both
goals, conditi- ing the latter upon success at the former. In fact,
however, epistemologies aimed at the skeptic tend not to get
anywhere near science. They've got all they can handle guring out
how we can know we have hands. I come to epistemology from the
philosophy of science, my original interest in which was
epistemological. Philosophers of science are concerned with
epistemic justi cation, but their question about it is how far it
extends. They take justi cation to be unproblematic at the level of
ordinary experience; their worries begin with the interpretation of
experience as evidence for theory. They are interested in the scope
of scienti c knowledge. Having taken a position on this question
(1997), - guing that justi cation extends to theoretical
hypotheses, I came to wonder about the nature of justi cation
generally. This is not a belated discovery of the skeptical problem
or a reconsideration of what I took to be unproblematic. It is
simply an interest in the possibility of locating epistemic advance
in science within a broader understanding of the nature of
epistemic justi cation. Now that I know that just- cation extends
to theory, I am taking a step back and asking what justi cation is.
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