SOC SCI H1G Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Magic 8-Ball, Foundationalism, Descriptive Knowledge

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOC SCI H1G
• Professor: Jeff Barrettand Kyle Stanford

Document Summary

The part that is normative is justification (the third part) Explanation is more of a description while justification is a type of prescription & what you ought to do. Justification involves reasoning why what you did made sense. Justification is important in the formation of belief. The standard account of propositional knowledge is true rationally justified belief. Agent x knows proposition p if & only if: X believes p (in order to know something you have to believe in it) P is true (knowledge cannot be knowledge unless it is factually true; would be opinion) X has rational justification for believing p (need process that reliably tracks the truth) Normative = relates to standard norm of behavior. Magic 8 ball -> cannot be used as justification for belief. Explain the distinction between explanation & justification (description & prescription). Foundationalist with respect for rational justification wants to find the foundations of knowledge.