{"product_id":"reason-and-proper-function-kelly-fitzsimmons-burton-9780578500249","title":"Reason and Proper Function: A Response to Alvin Plantinga","description":"\u003cp\u003e Alvin Plantinga, in \u003cem\u003eWarrant: The Current Debate\u003c\/em\u003e, notes that\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethere is a long history in Anglo-American epistemology that\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etraces back to the classical internalist views of Rene Descartes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand John Locke. Internalism is the view that an individual\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehas special access to that quantity or quality that makes true\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebelief into knowledge. This internalism, according to Plantinga, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eis motivated by deontology - or epistemic duty fulfillment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClosely connected with epistemic deontology is justification.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJustification (or what Plantinga prefers to call 'warrant') is that\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003equantity or quality, enough of which makes true belief into\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eknowledge. Plantinga strongly objects to the deontological\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eview of justification, claiming that no amount of duty fulfillment\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecan get us to knowledge. He says justification is neither\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enecessary nor sufficient for warrant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eIn Warrant: The Current Debate\u003c\/em\u003e (hereafter WCD) Plantinga\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eexamines several versions of internalism - from Classical\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand Post-Classical Chisholmian internalism, several forms of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecoherentism, to reliabilism - to show that none of these views\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eget us to that quantity or quality enough of which makes true\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebelief into knowledge. Plantinga rejects all of these views, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003earguing that what is needed is a view that takes into account the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eproper function of our cognitive faculties. He then proposes to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003egive a more accurate account of warrant in \u003cem\u003eWarrant and Proper\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFunction\u003c\/em\u003e (WPF). Plantinga's theory is that a belief is warranted\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eif it is formed by cognitive faculties functioning properly in an\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eappropriate environment and according to a good design plan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The purpose of this book is to examine Plantinga's view of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecognitive malfunction in connection with his view of warrant\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand his rejection of the traditional view of justification. I\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewill argue that the cognitive faculty of reason does not and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecannot malfunction in the way that Plantinga either explicitly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eor implicitly suggests. Consequently Plantinga's criticism of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ejustification does not stand. I argue further that if reason is\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enot subject to malfunction and is thus reliable, the traditional\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eview of justification - having appropriate reasons for belief\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein conjunction with true belief, possibly with the addition of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea fourth condition (the carefulness criterion) - will get us to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eknowledge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kelly Fitzsimmons Burton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0578500248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780578500249\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Public Philosophy Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/10\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 94\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.23d","brand":"Kelly Fitzsimmons Burton","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44059316027647,"sku":"9780578500249","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_910d9137-ad68-4225-9c58-4921d821cc40.jpg?v=1685057494","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/reason-and-proper-function-kelly-fitzsimmons-burton-9780578500249","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}