Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/QEczc4 Formal Epistemology and Cartesian Skepticism In Defense of Belief in the Natural World By: Tomoji Shogenji Publisher: Routledge Print ISBN: 9781138570184, 1138570184 eText ISBN: 9781351336543, 1351336541 Edition: 1st Copyright year: 2018 Format: EPUB Available from $ 21.98 USD SKU 9781351336543R90 This book develops new techniques in formal epistemology and applies them to the challenge of Cartesian skepticism. It introduces two formats of epistemic evaluation that should be of interest to epistemologists and philosophers of science: the dual-component format, which evaluates a statement on the basis of its safety and informativeness, and the relative-divergence format, which evaluates a probabilistic model on the basis of its complexity and goodness of fit with data. Tomoji Shogenji shows that the former lends support to Cartesian skepticism, but the latter allows us to defeat Cartesian skepticism. Along the way, Shogenji addresses a number of related issues in epistemology and philosophy of science, including epistemic circularity, epistemic closure, and inductive skepticism.
