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156Taking It Not at Face Value: A New Taxonomy for the Beliefs Acquired from Conversational AIsTechné: Research in Philosophy and Technology. forthcoming.One of the central questions in the epistemology of conversational AIs is how to classify the beliefs acquired from them. Two promising candidates are instrument-based and testimony-based beliefs. However, the category of instrument-based beliefs faces an intrinsic problem, and a challenge arises in its application. On the other hand, relying solely on the category of testimony-based beliefs does not encompass the totality of our practice of using conversational AIs. To address these limitations…Read more
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52The child objection is a major challenge for reductionism, which requires hearers to have positive reasons for testimonial justification. However, it has been pointed out that anti-reductionism, which requires only the absence of negative reasons, or defeaters, suffers from the same kind of problem. The child objection presupposes the empirical thesis that “children do not have the capacity to consider reasons,” but the plausibility of this assumption may be revealed by developmental psychology …Read more
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308Puzzles for Recursive ReliabilismReview of Analytic Philosophy 2 (1): 55-73. 2022.The recursive aspect of process reliabilism has rarely been examined. The regress puzzle, which illustrates infinite regress arising from the combination of the recursive structure and the no-defeater condition incorporated into it, is a valuable exception. However, this puzzle can be dealt with in the framework of process reliabilism by reconsidering the relationship between the recursion and the no-defeater condition based on the distinction between prima facie and ultima facie justification. …Read more
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Epistemology |
Justification |
Reliabilism about Justification |
Defeat |
Epistemology of Testimony |
David Hume |
Hume: Epistemology |
Hume: Belief |
Hume: Skepticism |