Towards an Internalist Conception of Justification in African Epistemology

Element of justification in contemporary epistemology

The definition of propositional knowledge has been said to be: "knowledge is belief in justified truth" and belief, truth, and justified are necessary and adequate conditions in the actualization of knowledge.  Many faults have been directed towards this three elemental definition, which some of them have been derived from the element of justification. This article reviews some of the most im...

Internalist and externalist aspects of justification in scientific inquiry

Towards an Evolutionary Epistemology

This work concerns a non-traditional approach to logic and epistemology, based on a challenging, albeit conjectural, articulation of views proceeding from Evolutionary Psychology and Biology, Non-Monotonic and Decision Logics, and Artificial Intelligence. The hinges to the latter inevitably suggest the emergence of an innovative symbiotic form of evolutionary epistemology. Evolution and the Bra...

Evolving towards an evolutionary epistemology

This work concerns a non-traditional approach to logic and epistemology, based on a challenging, albeit conjectural, articulation of views proceeding from Evolutionary Psychology and Biology, Non-Monotonic and Decision Logics, and Artificial Intelligence. The hinges to the latter inevitably suggest the emergence of an innovative symbiotic form of evolutionary epistemology, which will eventually...

Towards an Epistemology of Religious Traditions"

The vast majority of human beings derive their religious convictions from participation in a tradition, into which they were either born or converted. An important, but largely neglected, topic, therefore, is when, if at all, such participation is warranted) Quite a lot hangs on the answer to this question. For, as I shall make explicit, if it is warranted to participate in one tradition rather...