Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa
Posted in Philosophy on Sep 30th, 2010
According to a common view, beliefs suffer a coherence constraint that desires do not. If I believe that p, then I’m very unlikely, at the very same time, to believe that not-p — and if I do, that’s a clear rational failing. But desiring various contradictory things is commonplace. I don’t want to dispute that [...]
Posted in Philosophy on Sep 29th, 2010
Let us suppose that Dmitri knows how to sing the ”Il balen” cadenza from Verdi’s Il Trovatore. There’s a debate about whether Dmitri’s knowing how to sing the cadenza amounts to knowing some proposition. According to ‘intellectualists’, knowing how to X just is (to an approximation), knowing, for some w, that w is a way to X. [...]
Posted in Philosophy on Jan 27th, 2010
Fantl and McGrath argue that the combination of the following two views is problematic: (JJ) If you are justified in believing that p, then p is warranted enough to justify you in phi-ing, for any phi. (Quoted from p. 99) (Moderate Externalism about Justification) Justification does not supervene on the subject’s internal states. In particular, [...]