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22. Juli 1993 · In this book and in its companion volumes, Warrant: The Current Debate and Warranted Christian Belief, I examine the nature of epistemic warrant, that quantity enough of which distinguishes knowledge from mere true belief.
- Alvin Plantinga
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] .
Warrant and Proper Function. Alvin Plantinga. Oxford University Press, 1993 - Philosophy - 243 pages. In this companion volume to Warrant : the Current Debate, Alvin Plantinga develops an original...
The keystone in Plantinga's epistemology is the notion that warrant accrues to beliefs insofar as they are produced by cognitive mechanisms, aimed at truth, which are functioning properly in an environment for which they were designed. This conception of warrant calls for the idea that knowers function (more or less)
Its principal aim was to take a careful and critical look at some of the main contemporary accounts of warrant, trying to understand them, noting where they go wrong or are inadequate, seeing what can be learned from them, and trying to figure out where to look for a better account.
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 …
In Warrant and Proper Function, Alvin Plantinga calls testimony "a second class citizen in the epistemic republic. "1 Despite many accolades for the importance of testimony with regards to epistemic warrant, Plantinga pronounces this second class status because of two features he sees to be endemic to testimony. In his own
