Cartesian epistemology and infallible justification

Richard Fumerton

doi:10.1007/s11229-017-1456-2

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Cartesian epistemology and infallible justification

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Cartesian epistemology and infallible justification

Richard Fumerton

Synthese (Dordrecht), Vol.195(11), pp.4671-4681

11/01/2018

DOI: 10.1007/s11229-017-1456-2

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In this paper I examine contemporary accounts of noninferential justification in light of what I take to be the Cartesian project of building epistemology on foundations made secure by the impossibility of error. I argue that familiar abstract arguments for foundationalism, by themselves, don’t seem to motivate Cartesianism. But I further argue that there is one version of foundationalism that is more closely linked to the way in which Descartes sought ideal knowledge.

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Title: Subtitle: Cartesian epistemology and infallible justification
Creators: Richard Fumerton - University of Iowa
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Synthese (Dordrecht), Vol.195(11), pp.4671-4681
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-017-1456-2
ISSN: 0039-7857
eISSN: 1573-0964
Language: English
Date published: 11/01/2018
Academic Unit: Philosophy
Record Identifier: 9984397179602771

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