Explanationist rebuttals (coherentism defended again)

Southern Journal of Philosophy 50 (1):5-20 (2012)
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An explanatory coherence theory of justification is sketched and then defended against a number of recent objections: conservatism and relativism; wild and crazy beliefs; reliability; warranted necessary falsehoods; basing; distant, unknown coherences; Sosa's “self- and present-abstracts”; and Bayesian impossibility results

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William G. Lycan
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