{"product_id":"reason-and-proper-function-a-response-to-alvin-plantinga-paperback","title":"Reason and Proper Function: A Response to Alvin Plantinga - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKelly Fitzsimmons Burton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Alvin Plantinga, in \u003cem\u003eWarrant: The Current Debate\u003c\/em\u003e, notes that\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethere is a long history in Anglo-American epistemology that\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etraces back to the classical internalist views of Rene Descartes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand John Locke. Internalism is the view that an individual\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehas special access to that quantity or quality that makes true\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebelief into knowledge. This internalism, according to Plantinga, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eis motivated by deontology - or epistemic duty fulfillment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClosely connected with epistemic deontology is justification.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJustification (or what Plantinga prefers to call 'warrant') is that\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003equantity or quality, enough of which makes true belief into\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eknowledge. Plantinga strongly objects to the deontological\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eview of justification, claiming that no amount of duty fulfillment\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecan get us to knowledge. He says justification is neither\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enecessary nor sufficient for warrant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eIn Warrant: The Current Debate\u003c\/em\u003e (hereafter WCD) Plantinga\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eexamines several versions of internalism - from Classical\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand Post-Classical Chisholmian internalism, several forms of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecoherentism, to reliabilism - to show that none of these views\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eget us to that quantity or quality enough of which makes true\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebelief into knowledge. Plantinga rejects all of these views, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003earguing that what is needed is a view that takes into account the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eproper function of our cognitive faculties. He then proposes to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003egive a more accurate account of warrant in \u003cem\u003eWarrant and Proper\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFunction\u003c\/em\u003e (WPF). Plantinga's theory is that a belief is warranted\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eif it is formed by cognitive faculties functioning properly in an\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eappropriate environment and according to a good design plan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The purpose of this book is to examine Plantinga's view of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecognitive malfunction in connection with his view of warrant\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand his rejection of the traditional view of justification. I\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewill argue that the cognitive faculty of reason does not and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecannot malfunction in the way that Plantinga either explicitly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eor implicitly suggests. Consequently Plantinga's criticism of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ejustification does not stand. I argue further that if reason is\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enot subject to malfunction and is thus reliable, the traditional\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eview of justification - having appropriate reasons for belief\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein conjunction with true belief, possibly with the addition of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea fourth condition (the carefulness criterion) - will get us to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eknowledge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 94\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.23 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 10, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47453069443250,"sku":"9780578500249","price":12.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/5cf7a3748182d80edd56d8d811239a42.webp?v=1778820349","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/reason-and-proper-function-a-response-to-alvin-plantinga-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}