Debunking arguments
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4079653 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel Z Korman (0000-0002-6755-4951, University of California, Santa Barbara, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 12 |
| Publication date | 2019-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1747-9991 • E-ISSN: 1747-9991 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/phc3.12638 |
| OpenAlex | W4211130382 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 144 |
Debunking arguments-also known as etiological arguments, genealogical arguments, access problems, isolation objections, and reliability challenges-arise in philosophical debates about a diverse range of topics, including causation, chance, color, consciousness, epistemic reasons, free will, grounding, laws of nature, logic, mathematics, modality, morality, natural kinds, ordinary objects, religion, and time. What unifies the arguments is the transition from a premise about what does or doesn't explain why we have certain mental states to a negative assessment of their epistemic status. I examine the common, underlying structure of the arguments and the different strategies for motivating and resisting the premises of debunking arguments
Causation · Consciousness · Epistemology · Morality · Premise · Sociology · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Free Will and Agency · Philosophy · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
The power of second-order conspiracies
A Defense of Explanationism against Recent Objections
From Altered States to Metaphysics
No need to get up from the armchair (if you’re interested in debunking arguments in metaethics)
Rational Slack and Doxastic Grain
Immanence in Abundance
Speciesism and tribalism
Circular and question-begging responses to religious disagreement and debunking arguments
Genealogical undermining for conspiracy theories
An explanationist account of genealogical defeat
Recalibrating evolutionary debunking
What's the coincidence in debunking
Debunking creedal beliefs
Debunking interface theory
In what sense is evolution blind to moral truth
The epistemology of evolutionary debunking
Explanatory challenges and neo-Aristotelian essentialism
Tables turned on table talk
Epistemic Challenges to Moral Expressivism
The Believing Primate
A Philosophical Guide to Chance
Biology and Ethics
Value, Reality, and Desire
Objects and Persons
Warranted Christian Belief
Warrant and Proper Function
The Philosophy of Philosophy
Perception and the Fall from Eden
A Darwinian Dilemma for Realist Theories of Value
Ethics and Intuitions
Mathematical Truth
Beyond Point-and-Shoot Morality
What's Wrong with Moore's Argument?
The epistemological challenge to metanormative realism
A Causal Theory of Knowing
The Problem of Political Authority
Ontology and the Ambitions of Metaphysics
The Sources of Normativity
Evolution and the Normativity of Epistemic Reasons
Knowing Right From Wrong
Every Thing Must Go
Circularity in Setiya’s Knowing Right from Wrong
Evolutionary Debunking, Moral Realism and Moral Knowledge
You Just Believe That Because…1
The Reliability Challenge and the Epistemology of Logic
The Archimedean Urge
A platonist epistemology
How to be an uncompromising revisionary ontologist
Evolutionary debunking
Epistemology versus non-causal realism
Feel the flow
Third factor explanations and disagreement in metaethics
Street on evolution and the normativity of epistemic reasons
The defeater version of Benacerraf’s problem for a priori knowledge
A debunking argument against speciesism
Perception and Mathematical Intuition
Color Pluralism
The Non-Governing Conception of Laws of Nature
Metaphysical Ambitions in the Ontology of Objects
Content and Natural Selection
Replies
The Authority of Affect
Darwin and moral realism
(Probably) not companions in guilt
The moral fixed points
Must realists be skeptics? An Aristotelian reply to a Darwinian Dilemma
Naturalistic Explanation for Religious Belief
Philosophical Explanations
Objectivity and Truth
Evolutionary Debunking of Moral Realism
The Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism
Debunking Arguments and the Genealogy of Religion and Morality
Epistemological Objections to Platonism
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |