Titlebook: Epistemic Justification and the Skeptical Challenge; Hamid Vahid Book 2005 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited

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Analysing the Structure of Economic Modelsth. We tend to believe those hypotheses that are, in cer-tain respects, superior to the other members of the set. While this seems to be a rather fair description of the mechanism of belief formation in areas such as commonsense, science, and philosophy, it is also the source of a great many puzzles

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Introductionl yield different results. Epistemic evaluation, however, involves epistemic standards and appropriate epistemic goals. A theory of epistemic justification must therefore address the question of the aim and objective of epistemic justification, that is, what is the point of epistemic justification a

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Elements of a Theory of Justificationtions involving its own nature and characteristics are still very much matters of dispute. The situation has further been aggravated by the recent controversy over the internalist/externalist character of justification with both sides of the debate taking their cues from what they consider to be the

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The Internalism/Externalism Dividethe debate there are those epistemologists (internalists) who require the justifying factors of a belief to be cognitively accessible to the agent. Accordingly, something can be regarded as a justifier, that is, confer justification on a belief only if it is reflectively accessible to the subject. E

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Skepticism and Underdeterminationoubt. In Chapter 5 we discussed one way of utilizing this insight drawing on the principle of closure to set up a (Cartesian) skeptical argument. In this chapter, I shall deal with another way of constructing such arguments that helps itself with, not the principle of closure but, the so-called unde