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101Scientific Method in Brief, by Hugh G. Gauch, Jr (review)Teaching Philosophy 36 (3): 310-313. 2013.Review of *Scientific Method in Brief*.
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1853Evolutionary Theory and the Epistemology of ScienceIn Kostas Kampourakis (ed.), The Philosophy of Biology: A Companion for Educators, Springer. pp. 101-119. 2013.Evolutionary theory is a paradigmatic example of a well-supported scientific theory. In this chapter we consider a number of objections to evolutionary theory, and show how responding to these objections reveals aspects of the way in which scientific theories are supported by evidence. Teaching these objections can therefore serve two pedagogical aims: students can learn the right way to respond to some popular arguments against evolutionary theory, and they can learn some basic features of the …Read more
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99A New Evil Demon? No Problem for Moderate InternalistsActa Analytica 30 (1): 97-105. 2015.The New Evil Demon Problem is often seen as a serious objection to externalist theories of justification. In fact, some internalists think it is a decisive counterexample to externalism. Recently, Moon has argued that internalists face their own New Evil Demon Problem. According to Moon, it is possible for a demon to remove one’s unaccessed mental states while leaving the justificatory status of her accessed mental states unaffected. Since this is contrary to the claims of many forms of internal…Read more
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475Undaunted ExplanationismLogos and Episteme 8 (1): 117-127. 2017.Explanationism is a plausible view of epistemic justification according to which justification is a matter of explanatory considerations. Despite its plausibility, explanationism is not without its critics. In a recent issue of this journal T. Ryan Byerly and Kraig Martin have charged that explanationism fails to provide necessary or sufficient conditions for epistemic justification. In this article I examine Byerly and Martin’s arguments and explain where they go wrong.
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31Pick Your Poison: Beg the Question or Embrace CircularityInternational Journal for the Study of Skepticism 3 (4). 2013.According to Roderick Chisholm, there are three ways of responding to the Problem of the Criterion and they all leave something to be desired. Michael DePaul, Paul Moser, and Earl Conee have each proposed variations of a fourth way of responding to this problem that rely on reflective equilibrium. We argue that these four options for responding to the Problem of the Criterion leave one with a tough choice: accept one of the three that Chisholm describes or DePaul’s reflective equilibrium approac…Read more
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