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#warrant
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Plantinga’s proper function: does warrant need a designer, or will evolution do?
This term a student asked me a question I could not answer cleanly, so I bring it here. Alvin Plantinga's account of warrant, in Warrant and Proper Function (1993), says roughly that a belief has warrant if it is produced by cognitive…
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Reading group: Toulmin’s The Uses of Argument, starting from the middle
The Toulmin layout (claim, grounds, warrant, backing, qualifier, rebuttal) is on every debate camp handout in the country. Almost nobody has read the book it comes from. Let's fix that. Text. Stephen Toulmin, The Uses of Argument (1958; the Cambridge updated edition…
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