B J C Madison
Biographic Data
| ID | 5995437 |
|---|---|
| NAME | B J C Madison |
| GIVEN NAMES | B J C |
| FAMILY NAME | Madison |
| SIGNATURE | MADISON B J C |
| AFFILIATIONS | United Arab Emirates University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7909-0050 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
On the Possibility of Knowledge through Unsafe Testimony
If knowledge requires safety, then one might think that when the epistemic source of knowledge is testimony, that testimony must itself be safe. Otherwise, will not the lack of safety transfer from testimony to hearer, such that the hearer will lack knowledge? Resisting this natural line of reasoning, Sanford Goldberg argues that testimonial knowledge through unsafe testimony is possible on the basis of two cases. Jennifer Lackey and Charlie Pell…
On Social Defeat
Influential cases have been provided that seem to suggest that one can fail to have knowledge because of the social environment. If not a distinct kind of social defeater, is there a uniquely social phenomenon that defeats knowledge? My aim in this paper is to explore these questions. I shall argue that despite initial appearances to the contrary, we have no reason to accept a special class of social defeater, nor any essentially social defeat ph…
Is open-mindedness truth-conducive
On justifications and excuses
Epistemic Internalism
The internalism/externalism debate is of interest in epistemology since it addresses one of the most fundamental questions in the discipline: what is the basic nature of knowledge and epistemic justification? It is generally held that if a positive epistemic status obtains, this is not a brute fact. Rather if a belief is, for example, justified, it is justified in virtue of some further condition(s) obtaining. What has been called epistemic inter…
God? A Debate Between a Christian and an Atheist – By William Lane Craig and Walter Sinnot‐Armstrong
Themes in Hume
On justifications and excuses
Epistemic Internalism
The internalism/externalism debate is of interest in epistemology since it addresses one of the most fundamental questions in the discipline: what is the basic nature of knowledge and epistemic justification? It is generally held that if a positive epistemic status obtains, this is not a brute fact. Rather if a belief is, for example, justified, it is justified in virtue of some further condition(s) obtaining. What has been called epistemic inter…
God? A Debate Between a Christian and an Atheist – By William Lane Craig and Walter Sinnot‐Armstrong
Themes in Hume
Epistemic Internalism
The internalism/externalism debate is of interest in epistemology since it addresses one of the most fundamental questions in the discipline: what is the basic nature of knowledge and epistemic justification? It is generally held that if a positive epistemic status obtains, this is not a brute fact. Rather if a belief is, for example, justified, it is justified in virtue of some further condition(s) obtaining. What has been called epistemic inter…
On justifications and excuses
Is open-mindedness truth-conducive
On the Possibility of Knowledge through Unsafe Testimony
If knowledge requires safety, then one might think that when the epistemic source of knowledge is testimony, that testimony must itself be safe. Otherwise, will not the lack of safety transfer from testimony to hearer, such that the hearer will lack knowledge? Resisting this natural line of reasoning, Sanford Goldberg argues that testimonial knowledge through unsafe testimony is possible on the basis of two cases. Jennifer Lackey and Charlie Pell…
On Social Defeat
Influential cases have been provided that seem to suggest that one can fail to have knowledge because of the social environment. If not a distinct kind of social defeater, is there a uniquely social phenomenon that defeats knowledge? My aim in this paper is to explore these questions. I shall argue that despite initial appearances to the contrary, we have no reason to accept a special class of social defeater, nor any essentially social defeat ph…
Philosophy (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (5 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (2 works) · Citation (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Library science (2 works) · Metaphysics (2 works)