Epistemic conservatism is a view in epistemology about the structure of reasons or justification for belief. While there are various forms, epistemic conservatism is generally the view that a person's believing some claim is a reason in support of the claim, at least on the face of it.[1] Others formulate epistemic conservatism as the view that one is, to some degree, justified in believing something simply because one believes it.[2]
Expanding the thesis, epistemic conservatism implies that it is unreasonable to revise or alter our personal beliefs and ideologies without good reasons to do so. This action of revising would cause an unnecessary use of resources/energy by the individual, and it would not offer the individual any epistemic value. Epistemic conservatism sees an epistemic value in just holding one's beliefs stable.[3]
There have been some critics of the thesis but several important methodologies assume that this thesis holds true.[4]
Epistemicconservatism is a view in epistemology about the structure of reasons or justification for belief. While there are various forms, epistemic...
knowledge. Epistemologists study the nature, origin, and scope of knowledge, epistemic justification, the rationality of belief, and various related issues....
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that provides the best explanation. According to the method of epistemicconservatism, we should, all other things being equal, prefer the theory which...
In epistemology, phenomenal conservatism (PC) holds that it is reasonable to assume that things are as they appear, except when there are positive grounds...
theory of truth, and the coherence theory of justification (also known as epistemic coherentism). Coherent truth is divided between an anthropological approach...
Certainty (also known as epistemic certainty or objective certainty) is the epistemic property of beliefs which a person has no rational grounds for doubting...
action; and only internal reasons can do this. Two main varieties of epistemic internalism about justification are access internalism and ontological...
rationality aims at epistemic goals, like acquiring truth and avoiding falsehood. Practical rationality, on the other hand, aims at non-epistemic goals, like...
source of Western epistemic idealist arguments is the transcendental idealism of Kant. Other thinkers who have defended epistemic idealist arguments...
epistemology claims that ethical and political values are important in shaping epistemic practices, and interpretations of evidence. Feminist epistemology has...
group of persons, especially those held for reasons that are not purely epistemic, in which "practical elements are as prominent as theoretical ones". Formerly...
war that undermines the supposed "Christian values" of traditionalist conservatism and seeks to replace them with culturally liberal values. A contemporary...
contrasted with a truth-bearer. Epistemic closure is the claim knowledge is closed under entailment; in other words epistemic closure is a property or the...
presuppose that the epistemic agent possesses empirical knowledge of particular truths in order to make assumptions about the epistemic state of cognitive...
encompasses the differences in moral judgments among people and cultures. Epistemic relativism holds that there are no absolute principles regarding normative...
that legitimate epistemic justifications can lead to false beliefs, whereas academic skepticism claims that no legitimate epistemic justifications exist...
whether to understand the nature of this probability as epistemic or ontic. Along epistemic lines, one possibility is that there is some additional factor...
Belief Common sense Descriptive knowledge Exploratory thought Epistemic injustice Epistemic virtue Gettier problem Induction Internalism and externalism...
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occurs in the theories of "rhetoric is epistemic" in his 2004 article "What Do You Mean, Rhetoric is Epistemic?". In it, he focuses on uncovering the...
Bocheński (1965) makes a distinction between deontic and epistemic authority: A typical example of epistemic authority in Bocheński's usage would be "the relation...
reasoning, judging, and acting. An influential discussion concerning the epistemic aims of education is whether education should focus mainly on the transmission...
2013. Fumerton, Richard (21 February 2000). "Foundationalist Theories of Epistemic Justification". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved 19 August...
possibility of being wrong. In philosophy, infallibilism (sometimes called "epistemic infallibilism") is the view that knowing the truth of a proposition is...
doctrine (pariyatti) and monastic discipline (vinaya). One element of this conservatism is the fact that Theravāda rejects the authenticity of the Mahayana sutras...
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