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A bitter pill for closure
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dc.contributor.author | Backes, Marvin | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-01-03T13:30:22Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-01-03T13:30:22Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-11-18 | |
dc.identifier | 251494974 | |
dc.identifier | fb01e7bc-b3d6-4373-bc90-0f2ade22076b | |
dc.identifier | 85034234557 | |
dc.identifier | 000490473800017 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Backes , M 2017 , ' A bitter pill for closure ' , Synthese , vol. First Online . https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-017-1620-8 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0039-7857 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/12409 | |
dc.description.abstract | The primary objective of this paper is to introduce a new epistemic paradox that puts pressure on the claim that justification is closed under multi premise deduction. The first part of the paper will consider two well-known paradoxes—the lottery and the preface paradox—and outline two popular strategies for solving the paradoxes without denying closure. The second part will introduce a new, structurally related, paradox that is immune to these closure-preserving solutions. I will call this paradox, The Paradox of the Pill. Seeing that the prominent closure-preserving solutions do not apply to the new paradox, I will argue that it presents a much stronger case against the claim that justification is closed under deduction than its two predecessors. Besides presenting a more robust counterexample to closure, the new paradox also reveals that the strategies that were previously thought to get closure out of trouble are not sufficiently general to achieve this task as they fail to apply to similar closure-threatening paradoxes in the same vicinity. | |
dc.format.extent | 15 | |
dc.format.extent | 435010 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Synthese | en |
dc.subject | Lottery paradox | en |
dc.subject | Preface paradox | en |
dc.subject | Multi premise closure | en |
dc.subject | Paradox of the pill | en |
dc.subject | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion | en |
dc.subject | T-NDAS | en |
dc.subject.lcc | B | en |
dc.title | A bitter pill for closure | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Philosophy | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s11229-017-1620-8 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
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