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14Reflection and the Stability of Belief: Essays on Descartes, Hume, and Reid by Louis E. Loeb (review) (review)Hume Studies 39 (2): 257-260. 2014.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Reflection and the Stability of Belief: Essays on Descartes, Hume, and Reid by Louis E. LoebKevin MeekerLouis E. Loeb. Reflection and the Stability of Belief: Essays on Descartes, Hume, and Reid. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. xvii + 369. ISBN: 978-0-19-536876-5, Cloth, $99.00. ISBN 978-0-19-536875-8, Paper, $45.00.This book is (almost entirely) a collection of previously published essays by Louis Loeb. The …Read more
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13Is There Any Virtue in Offsetting?Ethics, Policy and Environment 25 (3): 258-260. 2022.Do we have a strong reason to offset even if offsetting is morally inefficient? Some philosophers – such as John Broome – argue that justice-based climate duties require us to contribute money to o...
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10Hume's radical scepticism and the fate of naturalized epistemologyPalgrave-Macmillan. 2013.Was David Hume radically sceptical about our attempts to understand the world or was he merely approaching philosophical problems from a scientific perspective? Most philosophers today believe that Hume's outlook was more scientific than radically sceptical and that his scepticism was more limited than previously supposed. If these philosophers are correct, then Hume's approach to philosophy mirrors the approach of many contemporary philosophers. This similarity between Hume and many aspects of …Read more
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8Was Hume a Proper Functionalist?Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 72 (1): 120-136. 2006.Nicholas Wolterstorff has claimed that David Hume hinted at a proper functionalist account that anticipates the epistemology of Alvin Plantinga. In this paper, I shall argue that we should refrain from attributing a proper functionalist epistemology to Hume. I shall first raise doubts as to how one could fit a notion of proper functioning into Hume's descriptive project. Next, I shall argue that adopting a proper functionalist epistemology would undermine some of Hume's most famous claims about …Read more
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Knowledge and Norms: A Defense of Epistemic JustificationDissertation, University of Notre Dame. 1998.In this dissertation, I defend the thesis that epistemic justification is necessary for knowledge and also provide a deontological theory about the nature of epistemic justification. To hone my own deontological account of epistemic justification, I look at various examples and arguments designed to show that one can have knowledge even if one has violated certain epistemic norms or duties. Particularly, I examine some prominent examples from William Alston and Alvin Plantinga. I conclude that t…Read more
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Epistemology |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |