Knowledge and belief / Frederick F. Schmitt.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-274) and index.

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Front Cover; Knowledge and Belief; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: Knowledge, Justification, and True Belief; I Greek Skepticism; 1 Plato's skepticism in the Theaetetus; 2 Academic skepticism; 3 Pyrrhonian skepticism; II Descartes' Skepticism; 1 The antecedent skeptical challenge; 2 The validation of reason; 3 Does justified belief require an answer to antecedent skepticism?; III Hume's Skepticism; 1 Hume's reliabilism; 2 Skepticism with regard to the senses -- or rather, imagination.

3 Hume's positive epistemology: strength, naturalness, and adaptiveness4 Hume's answer to consequent skepticism; IV Accessibility Internalism; 1 The deontic argument for accessibility internalism; 2 Against accessibility internalism; 3 The fairly direct accessibility of reasons; V Perspectival Internalism, Mental Internalism, and Epistemically Responsible Belief; 1 The responsibility argument for perspectival and mental intemalism; 2 The vat argument for mental internalism; VI Reliability, Relevant Processes, and Metaprocesses; 1 Relevant processes; 2 Metaprocesses.

VII Justification and Evaluation1Does justified belief require positive evaluation?; 2Is justified belief undermined by negative evaluation?; VIII The Value of Evaluation; 1 The utility of evaluation; 2 The accuracy of evaluation; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Knowledge, from Plato onwards, has been considered in relation to justified belief. Current debate has centred around the nature of the justification and whether justified belief can be considered an internal or extenal matter. Epistemological internalists argue that the subject must be able to reflect upon a belief to complete the process of justification. The externalists, on the other hand, claim that it is only necessary to consider whether the belief is reliably formed, and argue that the ability to know by reflection is not required for a justified belief. In the historical section o.

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