The Proper Functionist account of warrant – like many other externalist accounts – is vulnerable to certain Gettier-style counterexamples involving accidentally true beliefs. In this paper, I briefly survey the development of the account, noting the way it was altered in response to such counterexamples. I then argue that Alvin Plantinga’s latest amendment to the account is flawed insofar as it...

Abstract According to James K.A. Smith, contemporary epistemology is overly focused on the noetic. Smith offers a counter-epistemology drawn from pentecostal spirituality that narrative, affective, and embodied. Richard Davis Paul Franks criticize this model argue it succumbs story-relativism arbitrariness. This article defends against their critiques through three steps. First, exposits Smith’...

We propose an abstract argumentation theory whose dynamics is captured by the application of belief revision concepts. The theory is deemed as abstract because both the underlying logic for arguments and argumentative semantics remain unspecified. Regarding our approach to argument theory change, we define some basic change operations along with their necessary theoretical elements towards the ...