Dean H Chapman
Biographic Data
| ID | 5966615 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dean H Chapman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dean H |
| FAMILY NAME | Chapman |
| SIGNATURE | CHAPMAN D H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Town |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Individual and Social Self in a New Communitarianism
Some communitarians about personhood hold that human communities are metaphysically antecedent to individual persons, and that personhood comes in degrees, and that one becomes a person through ethical maturation within a community. I offer a new communitarianism that also endorses those claims. It is based partly on certain African accounts of the person—primarily Menkiti’s account—and partly on Mark Johnston’s extraordinary argument that extrem…
The Aim of Belief
Does belief aim at truth, or rather at knowledge? If it aims at truth, then what is the relationship between justification, knowledge, and the aim of belief? Are there non-evidential reasons to believe? Can beliefs be formed at will? If there are any distinctive belief-truth norms, then is belief constituted by such norms? These are just five of the questions at the core of discussion in ‘The Aim of Belief’, edited by Timothy Chan. In what follow…
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The Aim of Belief
Does belief aim at truth, or rather at knowledge? If it aims at truth, then what is the relationship between justification, knowledge, and the aim of belief? Are there non-evidential reasons to believe? Can beliefs be formed at will? If there are any distinctive belief-truth norms, then is belief constituted by such norms? These are just five of the questions at the core of discussion in ‘The Aim of Belief’, edited by Timothy Chan. In what follow…
The Individual and Social Self in a New Communitarianism
Some communitarians about personhood hold that human communities are metaphysically antecedent to individual persons, and that personhood comes in degrees, and that one becomes a person through ethical maturation within a community. I offer a new communitarianism that also endorses those claims. It is based partly on certain African accounts of the person—primarily Menkiti’s account—and partly on Mark Johnston’s extraordinary argument that extrem…
Epistemology (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (1 work) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work) · Cognition (1 work) · Communitarianism (1 work) · Environmental ethics (1 work) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (1 work) · Extant taxon (1 work)