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  2. Aug 14, 2006 · Much of epistemology revolves around questions about when and how our beliefs are justified or qualify as knowledge. Most contemporary philosophers characterize belief as a “propositional attitude”. Propositions are generally taken to be whatever it is that sentences express (see the entry on propositions ).

  3. WHAT IS JUSTIFIED BELIEF? The aim of this paper is to sketch a theory of justified belief. What I have in mind is an explanatory theory, one that explains in a general way why certain beliefs are counted as justified and others as unjustified.

  4. Abstract. The aim of this paper is to sketch a theory of justified belief. What I have in mind is an explanatory theory, one that explains in a general way why certain beliefs are counted as justified and others as unjustified.

    • Alvin I. Goldman
    • 1979
  5. Jun 14, 2010 · The “ethics of belief” refers to a cluster of questions at the intersection of epistemology, ethics, philosophy of mind, and psychology. The central question in the debate is whether there are norms of some sort governing our habits of belief-formation, belief-maintenance, and belief-relinquishment.

  6. According to a popular view in contemporary epistemology, a belief is justified if, and only if, it amounts to knowledge. 1 This claim fits within a general externalist framework of epistemic normativity in which the notion of knowledge plays a central role.

  7. Oxford Handbooks. Collection: Oxford Handbooks Online, Oxford Scholarship Online. The concept of justification may be the most fundamental in epistemology. On what became the dominant view in the twentieth century, knowledge is to be understood, at least in part, through our understanding of justification.

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