Sökning: "Truth Conduciveness"

Hittade 2 uppsatser innehållade orden Truth Conduciveness.

1. 1. (Don't) Think for Yourself : On Thinking and Teaching Critically and Responsibly

   Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Filosofiska institutionen

   Författare :Evelina Edfors; [2021]
   Nyckelord :Critical Thinking; Credulity; Truth Conduciveness; Epistemic Responsibility; Epistemic Fluidity; Social Epistemology; Virtue Epistemology;

   Sammanfattning : In this thesis, I explore the issue of epistemic responsibility. I start by examining an argument against the use of critical thinking made by Michael Huemer. Huemer argues that critical thinking is not epistemically responsible, because it is not as truth conducive as credulity. LÄS MER

3. 2. An Evolutionary Argument against Physicalism : or some advice to Jaegwon Kim and Alvin Plantinga

   Magister-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Författare :Christoffer Skogholt; [2014]
   Nyckelord :philosophy of mind; reductionism; mental causation; Jaegwon Kim; Alvin Plantinga; The myth of nonreductive materialism the evolutionary argument against naturalism ;

   Sammanfattning : According to the dominant tradition in Christianity and many other religions, human beings are both knowers and actors: beings with conscious beliefs about the world who sometimes act intentionally guided by these beliefs. According to philosopher of mind Robert Cummins the “received view” among philosophers of mind is epiphenomenalism, according to which mental causation does not exist: neural events are the underlying causes of both behavior and belief which explains the correlation (not causation) between belief and behavior. LÄS MER