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Warrant and Proper Function (1993) is the second book in a trilogy written by philosopher Alvin Plantinga on epistemology. Overview. In this book, Plantinga introduces the notion of warrant as an alternative to justification and discusses topics like self-knowledge, memories, perception, and probability. [1]
27 de may. de 1993 · In this companion volume to Warrant: The Current Debate, Alvin Plantinga develops an original approach to the question of epistemic warrant; that is what turns true belief into knowledge. He argues that what is crucial to warrant is the proper functioning of one's cognitive faculties in the right kind of cognitive environment.
He argues that what is crucial to warrant is the proper functioning of one's cognitive faculties in the right kind of cognitive environment. He begins by examining the...
The notion of proper function, I say, is crucial to the central paradigms of knowledge and warrant. But that notion is inextricably linked with another: that of the design plan of the organ or organism or system in question-the way the thing in question is supposed to work, the way it works when it works properly, when it is subject to no ...
Still, reliabilism does not offer a correct account of warrant. The early Goldman offers a stylized and paradigmatic reliabilism: A belief has warrant if and only if it is the product of a reliable belief producing mechanism (or process or faculty).
WARRANT AND PROPER FUNCTION. By ALVIN PLANTINGA. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp. xii, 243. In these two volumes Alvin Plantinga first surveys and criticizes various current views that might be thought to capture the epistemological no-tion of warranted belief (Warrant: The Current Debate); and then formu-
In Warrant and Proper Function, Alvin Plantinga claims that metaphysical naturalism, when joined to a naturalized epistemology, is self-undermining. Plantinga argues that naturalists are committed to …
