Dougherty & Rysiew Flashcards
For D&R what comes first for epistemology ?
experience
For D&R, your (ultimate) evidence is what you ______________
experience (or how things appear to you)
What ultimately justifies belief?
experience
What do D&R argue?
If knowledge can’t be analyzed as JTB+X, maybe that should free us to think that the thing that really matters is justification (in its own right, and not just for its potential connection to knowledge)
We should focus on
_____________, not just knowledge.
understanding
What do good and bad cases have in common?
‘what it is like’ to be in these states, and this is “in a way more direct than the external world, since it is in virtue of our experience that we are aware of the world.”
According to Dougherty and Rysiew, seeing an oasis in the desert and hallucinating an oasis in the desert has something important in common. What is it?
What it is like to be in that state; the qualitative character of the state.
Do Dougherty and Rysiew agree with Williamson that our cognitive systems naturally aim at getting knowledge?
No, they think these systems might just aim at ‘good-enough’ belief, or perhaps aim at understanding.
How do Dougherty and Rysiew defend the idea that experiences are “epistemic rock bottom”?
They say that it doesn’t make sense to ask people what their evidence is that they had certain experiences.
Which of these statements would Rysiew and Dougherty DENY?
Experience can’t ultimately serve as a guide to truth.
