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Research post- Acquaintance and Speckled Hens: a defense of foundationalism

By Paul Martin | April 23, 2012

I’m going to write my research paper on Richard Fumerton’s article “Speckled Hens and Objects of Acquaintance.” This article is written in defense of the foundationalist view that there are justified basic beliefs. The item under scrutiny in the speckled hen objection is the foundationalist account of how a basic belief obtains justification. A justified [...]

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Paul Martin Presents: Modest Foundationalism

By Paul Martin | April 14, 2012

A Presentation of Modest Foundationalism:
The theory I’m going to present, explain, and evaluate is Modest Foundationalism. Modest Foundationalism is a theory that distinguishes the structure of epistemic justification. A feature that I find attractive about Foundationalism (in general) is that it coincides with the propositions of the regress argument and maintains that they bear a [...]

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Big Bang Theory Episode

By Paul Martin | March 30, 2012

They’re playing “counterfactuals” the game. I hope this is appropriate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lpY0Kt4bn8

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Random Post

By Paul Martin | March 30, 2012

I had a conversation with Dr. Jacuzzo today and as a consequence I’ve been thinking lately about two things that we’ve talked about in class, these are just things that i’m curious about so I would really appreciate peoples comments. (1) When we were talking about Cartesian Foundationalism we brought up the idea of contingent [...]

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Coherentism and Truth

By Paul Martin | March 23, 2012

Coherentism is an attempt to provide an explanation for the notion of how we ought to structure the justification for knowledge. Coherentism puts forward the consideration that beliefs are either entirely the agents which justify other beliefs, or are in the very least a required component of the justification of beliefs. Coherentism nominates that [...]

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Why JTB?

By Paul Martin | February 11, 2012

I’m not sure if this is too circular of a definition, but how come we can’t consider knowledge as a truth that you’re aware of? Maybe I’m over thinking or not thinking about this enough, but in class I started to not understand why you need to have a justification or belief at all in [...]

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God and Knowledge and Souls

By Paul Martin | February 4, 2012

I was reading a bunch of the philosophy of religion posts that explore the idea of a triple O-god, and while wondering whether or not god exists, I started to wonder; if god doesn’t exist, then why would the idea of god exists? And this made me think about the idea that maybe god is [...]

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