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Reason and explanation = a defense of explanatory coherentism /

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Title/Author:	Reason and explanation/ Ted Poston.
Reminder of title:	a defense of explanatory coherentism /
Author:	Poston, Ted.
Published:	Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan : : 2014.,
Description:	208 p. :2 ill. :
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Subject:	Knowledge, Theory of. -
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Reason and explanation = a defense of explanatory coherentism /
Poston, Ted.

Reason and explanationa defense of explanatory coherentism /[electronic resource] :Ted Poston. - 1st ed. - Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan :2014. - 208 p. :2 ill. - Palgrave innovations in philosophy.

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Series Editors' Preface Preface 1. Introduction 2. Epistemic Conservatism 3. Reasons without First Philosophy 4. Explanation and Justification 5. BonJour and the Myth of the Given 6. Is Foundational a Priori Justification Indispensable? 7. Bayesian Explanationism Index.

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In this new explanationist account of epistemic justification, Poston argues that the explanatory virtues provide all the materials necessary for a plausible account of justified belief. There are no purely autonomous reasons. Rather reasons occur only within an explanatory coherent set of beliefs.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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Ted Poston is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Alabama, USA. His primary areas of research are epistemology and philosophy of science. He has written many articles in journals such as American Philosophical Quarterly, Dialectica, Episteme, Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy and Phenomenology Research, Res Philosophica, and The Southern Journal of Philosophy.

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Knowledge, Theory of.

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520 1 $a Poston presents his readers with an original, clear and sophisticated defense of both epistemic conservatism and explanatory coherentism. He couples that defense of his positive view with a formidable, sustained attack on classical foundationalism. The book is a must read for anyone interested in fundamental issues in epistemology. - Richard Fumerton, F. Wendell Miller Professor of Philosophy, University of Iowa, USA Ted Poston argues for holistic explanatory status as the essence of epistemic justification. This sort of account had receded from view in mainline epistemology, and Poston's argument should make it more visible, and even prominent. Whatever else epistemic normativity may encompass, holistic explanatory status is an extremely important component, as this book makes clear to the attentive reader, who will be engaged and enlightened. - Ernest Sosa, Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University, USA This is an excellent book. Poston makes a powerful case for explanatory coherentism. Although such views have largely fallen out of favor in recent years, they seem to be poised for a comeback and Poston's book will rightly be at the forefront of explanationism's return to center stage. This is a work that anyone interested in epistemology would be well advised to study closely. - Kevin McCain, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA.
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