Reason and Explanation: A Defense of Explanatory Coherentism

Palgrave Macmillan UK (2014)
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In this new explanationist account of epistemic justification, Poston argues that the explanatory virtues provide all the materials necessary for a plausible account of justified belief. There are no purely autonomous reasons. Rather reasons occur only within an explanatory coherent set of beliefs.

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Abduction.Igorn D. Douven - 2011 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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