Alvin Goldman
Biographic Data
| ID | 5963763 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alvin Goldman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alvin |
| FAMILY NAME | Goldman |
| SIGNATURE | GOLDMAN A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Different Solution to the Generality Problem for Process Reliabilism
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…
Imagination and Simulation in Audience Responses to Fiction
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…
Kornblith's Naturalistic Epistemology
The Need for Social Epistemology
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…
Liaisons
Liaisons
The Need for Social Epistemology
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…
Kornblith's Naturalistic Epistemology
Imagination and Simulation in Audience Responses to Fiction
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…
A Different Solution to the Generality Problem for Process Reliabilism
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…
Philosophy (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning (1 work) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Citation (1 work) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (1 work) · Cognition (1 work)