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by Alvin Plantinga (Author) "One thought emerging from our canvas of contemporary accounts of warrant in Warrant: The Current Debate is that there are many different valuable epistemic states..." (more)
Key Phrases: epistemic conditional probability, conditional epistemic probability, episternic probability, New York, Thomas Reid, Alpha Centaurian (more...)
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Editorial Reviews
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"A must for all epistemologists and philosophers of religion. Seldom is sustained philosophical argument such a joy to read."--Religious Studies Review

"...will undoubtedly generate extensive debate because of the breadth of scope, meticulous detail and resourceful argument that are so characteristic of Plantinga's work."--International Studies in Review

"The present volume and its two companions raise larger issues and promise to significantly broaden the scope and influence of this epistemological project....There is much that is provocative and of great interest in this new book from Plantinga....readers of the first two volumes will find much food for thought here, and will have their appetites whetted for the third, forthcoming volume of the trilogy."--Mind

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In this companion volume to Warrant: The Current Debate, Alvin Plantinga develops an original approach to the question of epistemic warrant; that is what turns true belief into knowledge. He argues that what is crucial to warrant is the proper functioning of one's cognitive faculties in the
right kind of cognitive environment. Although this book is in some sense a sequel to its companion volume, the arguments do not presuppose those of the first book and it stands alone as a stimulating contribution to epistemology.

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Product Details
  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (May 27, 1993)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0195078640
  • ISBN-13: 978-0195078640
  • Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
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First Sentence:
One thought emerging from our canvas of contemporary accounts of warrant in Warrant: The Current Debate is that there are many different valuable epistemic states of affairs-epistemic values, we might call them, giving that oft-abused word a decent sense; and different conceptions of warrant appeal to different epistemic values. Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
epistemic conditional probability, conditional epistemic probability, episternic probability, optimistic overrider, maximal warrant, ultimately undefeated defeater, brain inscriptions, rational corpus, cognitive design plan, phenomenal imagery, design plan governing, purely psychological properties, intuitive warrant, propositional evidence, flying donkeys, human design plan, new design plan, analogical position, squirrel appearance, cognitive malfunction, nontestimonial evidence, producing true beliefs, broadly logical sense, undercutting defeater, statistical syllogism
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Thomas Reid, Alpha Centaurian, Clarendon Press, Notre Dame, Philosophical Perspectives, Intellectual Powers of Man, James Tomberlin, John Pollock, North Dakota, Richard Swinburne, Cornell University Press, David Lewis, Exploring the Design Plan, Isaac Levi, Cambridge University Press, Emergence of Probability, Hilary Putnam, Ian Hacking, Philosophical Studies, Princeton University Press, Treatise of Human Nature, Bertrand Russell, Confirmation Theory, Harvard University Press
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