Noah Lemos defends the common sense tradition--the view that permits us to justify the philosophical inquiry of many of the things we ordinarily think we know. He discusses the main features of this tradition as expounded by Thomas Reid, G.E. Moore and Roderick Chisholm in a text that will appeal to students and philosophers in epistemology and ethics.
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In this book Noah Lemos presents a strong defense of the common sense tradition, the view that we may take as data for philosophical inquiry many of the things we ordinarily think we know. He discusses the main features of that tradition as expounded by Thomas Reid, G.E. Moore and Roderick Chisholm. Written in a clear and engaging style, this book will appeal to students and philosophers in epistemology an ethics.
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In this chapter, I begin by describing some of the main features of the common sense tradition, whose chief representatives include Thomas Reid, G. E. Moore, and Roderick Chisholm. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mnemonic beliefs, particular epistemic beliefs, generalizability thesis, forming moral beliefs, epistemically satisfactory way, epistemic propositions, sense particularist, mnemonic knowledge, track record argument, various common sense beliefs, normative supervenience principles, general epistemic principles, sense particularism, epistemic circularity, common sense tradition, handless brain, epistemic irresponsibility, remote possible worlds, reasoning for the reliability, skeptical contexts, common sense philosopher, supervenient character, epistemic facts, positive epistemic status, common sense propositions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Thomas Reid, Ernest Sosa, Oxford University Press, Laurence Bonjour, Philosophical Papers, The Structure of Empirical Knowledge, New York, Defence of Common Sense, Intellectual Powers of Man, Richard Fumerton, Roderick Chisholm, William Alston, Cambridge University Press, Panayot Butchvarov, Englewood Cliffs, Hume's Theory Examined, John Stuart Mill, Jonathan Vogel, Philosophical Studies, Alvin Plantinga, David Hume, William Lycan New!
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In this chapter, I begin by describing some of the main features of the common sense tradition, whose chief representatives include Thomas Reid, G. E. Moore, and Roderick Chisholm. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mnemonic beliefs, particular epistemic beliefs, generalizability thesis, forming moral beliefs, epistemically satisfactory way, epistemic propositions, sense particularist, mnemonic knowledge, track record argument, various common sense beliefs, normative supervenience principles, general epistemic principles, sense particularism, epistemic circularity, common sense tradition, handless brain, epistemic irresponsibility, remote possible worlds, reasoning for the reliability, skeptical contexts, common sense philosopher, supervenient character, epistemic facts, positive epistemic status, common sense propositions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Thomas Reid, Ernest Sosa, Oxford University Press, Laurence Bonjour, Philosophical Papers, The Structure of Empirical Knowledge, New York, Defence of Common Sense, Intellectual Powers of Man, Richard Fumerton, Roderick Chisholm, William Alston, Cambridge University Press, Panayot Butchvarov, Englewood Cliffs, Hume's Theory Examined, John Stuart Mill, Jonathan Vogel, Philosophical Studies, Alvin Plantinga, David Hume, William Lycan New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Surprise Me!
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- Philosophical Papers (Muirhead Library of Philosophy) on 9 pages
- Theory of Knowledge (Prentice-Hall Foundations of Philosophy Series) by Roderick Chisholm on 9 pages
- Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man by Thomas Reid on 7 pages
- The Structure of Empirical Knowledge by Laurence BonJour on 7 pages
- Knowledge in Perspective: Selected Essays in Epistemology (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy) by Ernest Sosa on 5 pages
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