the warrant of truth has long been drawing the attention of philosophers.in order to find out the truth value one should determine first the criterion of truth. discursive or representational knowledge are related to objects external of mind and so since external circumstances are involved in occurrence of this sort of knowledge, its truth value is diminished. presential knowledge, however, is ...

Any scientific discovery must include an epistemic process to gain knowledge of or to ascertain the existence of some empirical and/or logical entailments previously unknown or unrecognized. This paper proposes a new programming paradigm, named Epistemic Programming, which regards entailments as the subject of computing, takes three primary epistemic operations, i.e., epistemic deduction of kno...

I argue that evolutionary strategies of kin selection and game-theoretic reciprocity are apt to generate agent-centered and agentneutral moral intuitions, respectively. Such intuitions are the building blocks of moral theories, resulting in a fundamental schism between agent-centered theories on the one hand and agentneutral theories on the other. An agent-neutral moral theory is one according ...

In many ways, the paces we've be.cn put through here ;,~.re entirely typical of philosophical disc:ussion. Perhaps most typical is the state of play at the end of the day. Rarely do philosophers have k."lock.down arguments that can eliminate a philosophical position from contenlli>n. Philosophical evaluation is ordinarily a matter of weighing the pros and cons of competing theories, and tentati...