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Reason and Explanation develops a novel explanationist account of epistemic justification. Poston argues that the explanatory virtues provide all the materials necessary for a plausible account of justified belief. The justification of a subject's belief consists in the explanatory virtues of the entire set of the subject's beliefs in comparison with other sets of beliefs she could have. Poston's argument for explanatory coherentism involves a defense of the epistemic value of background beliefs, the development of a novel framework view of reasons, and the articulation of a mentalist, evidentialist account of explanatory coherentism. Poston also argues against foundationalist attempts to ground facts about justification in sense experience. He extends the argument against foundationalism by examining how a priori justification consists in one's overall explanatory position. Finally, Poston articulates a compatiblist position regarding the relationship between inference to the best explanation and Bayesianism.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge

• Full title: Reason and Explanation
• Subtitle: A Defense of Explanatory Coherentism
• Author: Ted Poston
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 195
• EAN: 9781137012258
• ISBN: 1137012250
• ID: 04770521
• Publisher: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
• Weight: 368 g
• Dimensions: 224 × 136 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 13. August 2014

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