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The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 2000 51(2):287-298; doi:10.1093/bjps/51.2.287
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Self-dependent justification without circularity

T Shogenji

Department of Philosophy, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI 02908, USA E-mail: tshogenji@ric.edu

This paper disputes the widely held view that one cannot establish the reliability of a belief-forming process with the use of belief's that are obtained by that very process since such self-dependent justification is circular. Harold Brown ([1993]) argued in this journal that some cases of self-dependent justification are legitimate despite their circularity. I argue instead that under appropriate construal many cases of self-dependent justification are not truly circular but are instances of ordinary Bayesian confirmation, and hence they can raise the probability of the hypothesis as legitimately as any such confirmation does. I shall argue in particular that despite its dependence on perception we can use naturalized epistemology to confirm the reliability of a perceptual process without circularity.


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