Moderater erkenntnistheoretischer Naturalismus und der Wert des Wissens

The paper distinguishes various forms of epistemological naturalism and examines whether process reliabilism, a paradigm example of moderate epistemological naturalism, can account for the apparent surplus value of knowledge over mere true belief. Alvin Goldman and Erik Olsson have recently proposed...

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Subtitles:Christliches Menschenbild und Naturalismus$dPhilosophische Standortbestimmungen
Main Author: Jäger, Christoph 1965- (Author)
Format: Print Article
Language:German
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Published: Echter 2011
In: Zeitschrift für katholische Theologie
Year: 2011, Volume: 133, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 422-441
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Summary:The paper distinguishes various forms of epistemological naturalism and examines whether process reliabilism, a paradigm example of moderate epistemological naturalism, can account for the apparent surplus value of knowledge over mere true belief. Alvin Goldman and Erik Olsson have recently proposed a novel solution to this axiological question. Forming true beliefs in a reliable way, they maintain, raises the conditional probability that the subject will have more true beliefs in the future. I argue that this proposai confronts various problems. Most of them can be remedied if one postulâtes that the subject have higher-order beliefs towards his or her epistemic situation. This aspect of the conditional probability solution, 1 argue, is neutral with respect to metaphysical naturalism regarding higher-order representations.
ISSN:0044-2895
Contains:Enthalten in: Zeitschrift für katholische Theologie