Alvin I Goldman

Datos Biográficos

ID1090458
NOMBREAlvin I Goldman
NOMBRESAlvin I
APELLIDOGoldman
FIRMAGOLDMAN A I
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Arizona
ORCID0000-0003-0793-4589
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS48
TOTAL DE CITAS100
TOTAL COMO AUTOR46
TOTAL COMO EDITOR2
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1967
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2021
ÍNDICE H6

  • How Can You Spot the Experts? An Essay in Social Epistemology

    Open AccessAlvin I GoldmanARTICLERoyal Institute of Philosophy…2021

    In the history of western philosophy, people were often encouraged to seek knowledge by starting from their own minds and proceeding in a highly individualistic spirit. In recent contemporary philosophy, by contrast, there is a movement toward Social Epistemology, which urges people to seek knowledge from what others know. However, in selected fields some people are experts while others are laypersons. It is natural for self-acknowledged layperso…

  • A Different Solution to the Generality Problem for Process Reliabilism

    Alvin I Goldman, Alvin GoldmanARTICLEPhilosophical Topics2021

    According to process reliabilism, a person's belief is justified just in case it is generated by a reliable belief-forming process. If somebody merely wishes that P is true, and proceeds to believe it for that reason only, the belief is not justified. Some critics of reliabilism, however, point out that each token process that causes a particular belief is of numerous different types, which can vary in reliability. So, which type must be sufficie…

  • Expertise

    Open AccessAlvin I GoldmanARTICLETopoi2018

  • What Is Democracy (and What Is Its Raison D’Etre)?

    Open AccessAlvin I GoldmanARTICLEJournal of the American…2015

    This article aims to say what democracy is or what the predicate ‘democratic’ means, as opposed to saying what is good, right, or desirable about it. The basic idea—by no means a novel one—is that a democratic system is one that features substantial equality of political power. More distinctively it is argued that ‘democratic’ is a relative gradable adjective, the use of which permits different, contextually determined thresholds of democraticnes…

  • Internalism, Externalism, and the Architecture of Justification

    Alvin I Goldman, Inc Journal of PhilosophyARTICLEThe Journal of Philosophy2009

  • Recursive Tracking versus Process Reliabilism

    Open AccessAlvin I GoldmanARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…2009Citada por: 1

  • Hurley on Simulation

    Open AccessAlvin I GoldmanARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…2008Referencias: 1

    It is a tragedy that Susan Hurley was taken from us (by cancer) at the height of her powers. She was a philosopher of impressive insight and knowledge. Even if one didn’t accept her distinctive philosophico-scientific views, one had to admire her scholarship, vigor, and inventiveness. Despite her illness, she made a long trip to the 2007 Pacific Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association to participate in an author-meets-critics s…

  • Imagination and Simulation in Audience Responses to Fiction

    Alvin I Goldman, Alvin GoldmanCHAPTERThe Architecture of the Imagination2006

    This chapter considers how imagination generates emotion. ‘Supposition-imagination’ (S-imagination) is distinguished from ‘enactment-imagination’ (E-imagination). The former kind of imagination involves entertaining or supposing various hypothetical scenarios; with the latter kind of imagination, one tries to create a kind of facsimile of a mental state. Thus, one might try to create a perception-like state as in visual imagination or motoric ima…

  • Simulating Minds

    Alvin I GoldmanBOOKSimulating Minds2006

    How people assign mental states to others and how they represent or conceptualize such states in the first place are topics of interest to philosophy of mind, developmental psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. Three competing answers to the question of how people impute mental states to others have been offered: by rationalizing, by theorizing, or by simulating. Simulation theory says that mindreaders produce mental states in their own minds t…

  • Simulating Minds

    Alvin I GoldmanBOOKSimulating Minds2006

  • Kornblith's Naturalistic Epistemology

    Open AccessAlvin I Goldman, Alvin GoldmanARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…2005Citada por: 1

  • The Need for Social Epistemology

    Alvin I Goldman, Alvin GoldmanCHAPTERThe future for philosophy2004

    Epistemology is one of the oldest fields of philosophy. Plato, for example, devoted several dialogues, or portions thereof, to epistemology, including Meno, Phaedo, Republic, and Theaetetus. Epistemology is as lively a subject today as in many periods, though its intricacies are not widely known outside academic philosophy. Much of today’s epistemology, like the epistemology of yesteryear, is focused on skepticism. But there is also a novel devel…

  • The Mentalizing Folk

    Alvin I Goldman, ProtoSociology ProjectARTICLEProtoSociology2002

  • Reply to Commentators

    Open AccessAlvin I GoldmanARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…2002Citada por: 3

  • Précis of Knowledge in a Social World

    Open AccessAlvin I GoldmanARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…2002

  • The Unity of the Epistemic Virtues

    Alvin I GoldmanCHAPTERVirtue epistemology2001

    One of the central questions about the moral virtues that preoccupied Socrates concerned the unity of the virtues. Are the several virtues aspects of a single virtue or are they entirely distinct and independent? Socrates himself apparently accepted the doctrine of the unity of the virtues. In this essay I shall explore the tenability of an analogous doctrine for the intellectual, or epistemic, virtues, namely, that the various epistemic virtues …

  • Experts

    Open AccessAlvin I GoldmanARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…2001Citada por: 23

  • The Mentalizing Folk

    Alvin I GoldmanCHAPTERMetarepresentations2000

    Ordinary people are mentalizers. The folk not only have mental states, but they represent themselves — both self and others — as having mental states. Many of these mental states (e.g., beliefs and desires) represent how the world is or ought to be. By representing themselves as having such first-order representational states, the folk engage in second-order representation, or metarepresentation. The class of representations is not exhausted, of …

  • Folk Psychology and Mental Concepts

    Alvin I Goldman, ProtoSociology ProjectARTICLEProtoSociology2000

    There are several different questions associated with the study of folk psychology: (1) what is the nature of our commonsense concepts of mental states?, (2) how do we attribute mental states, to ourselves and to other people?, and (3) how do we acquire our concepts and skills at mental-state attribution? Three general approaches to these questions are examined and assessed: theory theory, simulation theory, and rationality theory. A preliminary …

  • Why Citizens Should Vote

    Open AccessAlvin I GoldmanCHAPTERResponsibility1999

    Why should a citizen vote? There are two ways to interpret this question: in a prudential sense, and in a moral (or quasi-moral) sense. Under the first interpretation, the question asks why–or under what circumstances–it is in a citizen's self-interest to vote. Under the second interpretation, it asks what moral (or quasi-moral) reasons citizens have for voting. I shall mainly try to answer the moral version of the question, but my answer may als…

  • Why Citizens Should Vote

    Open AccessAlvin I GoldmanARTICLESocial Philosophy and Policy1999

    Why should a citizen vote? There are two ways to interpret this question: in a prudential sense, and in a moral (or quasi-moral ) sense. Under the first interpretation, the question asks why—or under what circumstances—it is in a citizen's self-interest to vote. Under the second interpretation, it asks what moral (or quasi-moral) reasons citizens have for voting. I shall mainly try to answer the moral version of the question, but my answer may al…

  • Social Epistemology

    Open AccessAlvin I GoldmanARTICLECritica1999

    Social Epistemology

  • Knowledge in a Social World

    Alvin I GoldmanBOOKKnowledge in a Social World1999

    A certain conception of social epistemology is articulated and applied to numerous social arenas. This conception retains epistemology's traditional interest in truth and reliable inquiry, but replaces its customary emphasis on solitary knowers with a focus on social institutions and interpersonal practices. Postmodernism, science studies, and pragmatism pose worries about the meaning and attainability of objective truth and knowledge. After layi…

  • Knowledge in a Social World

    Alvin I GoldmanBOOKKnowledge in a social world1999

    "Knowledge in a Social World offers a philosophy for the information age. Alvin Goldman explores new frontiers by creating a thoroughgoing social epistemology, moving beyond the traditional focus on solitary knowers. Against the tides of postmodernism and social constructionism Goldman defends the integrity of truth and shows how to promote it by well-designed forms of social interaction. From science to education, from law to democracy, he shows…

  • Science, Publicity, and Consciousness

    Open AccessAlvin I GoldmanARTICLEPhilosophy of Science1997Citada por: 3Referencias: 13

    A traditional view is that scientific evidence can be produced only by intersubjective methods that can be used by different investigators and will produce agreement. This intersubjectivity, or publicity, constraint ostensibly excludes introspection. But contemporary cognitive scientists regularly rely on their subjects' introspective reports in many areas, especially in the study of consciousness. So there is a tension between actual scientific …