Adaptivity and truth. A critique of Plantinga’s reasoning against evolutionary reliabilism

Title:

Adaptivity and truth. A critique of Plantinga’s reasoning against evolutionary reliabilism

Creator:

Fábiková, Andrea

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:8b1affce-8ea2-4069-967d-bfe18f669566
uuid:8b1affce-8ea2-4069-967d-bfe18f669566
doi:10.46854/fc.2021.3s62

Subject:

Alvin Plantinga, Darwin’s doubt, evolutionary reliabilism, and the evolutionary argument against naturalism

Type:

model:article and TEXT

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bez média and svazek

Description:

The paper analyses the arguments put forward by Plantinga to justify his refutation of evolutionary reliabilism, i.e. the claim that the probability that the cognitive faculties, developed in the process of unguided evolution, are reliable is low. I argue that all the thought experiments offered by Plantinga to justify this thesis suffer from a common defect – they disregard the condition of evolution or fail to take it into account properly. In addition, I argue that pointing out the difficulties that naturalistic approaches have in explaining mental causation does not lead to Plantinga’s conclusion that in a naturalistic world there would be no mental causation whatsoever.

Language:

Czech

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
policy:public

Coverage:

62-74

Source:

Filosofický časopis | 2021 Volume:69 | Number:Special issue 3

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