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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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When warrant transmits and when it doesn't

towards a general framework

Luca MorettiTommaso Piazza

pp. 2481-2503

Abstract

In this paper we focus on transmission and failure of transmission of warrant. We identify three individually necessary and jointly sufficient conditions for transmission of warrant, and we show that their satisfaction grounds a number of interesting epistemic phenomena that have not been sufficiently appreciated in the literature. We then scrutinise Wright’s analysis of transmission failure and improve on extant readings of it. Nonetheless, we present a Bayesian counterexample that shows that Wright’s analysis is partially incoherent with our analysis of warrant transmission and prima facie defective. We conclude exploring three alternative lines of reply: developing a more satisfactory account of transmission failure, which we outline; dismissing the Bayesian counterexample by rejecting some of its assumptions; reinterpreting Wright’s analysis to make it immune to the counterexample.

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Moretti Luca, Pedersen Nikolaj Yang Lee Linding (2013) Epistemic transmission and interaction. Synthese 190 (13).

Pages: 2481-2503

DOI: 10.1007/s11229-011-0018-2

Full citation:

Moretti Luca, Piazza Tommaso (2013) „When warrant transmits and when it doesn't: towards a general framework“. Synthese 190 (13), 2481–2503.