A CRITICAL REVIEW OF BROWN'S SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM OF ACCESSIBILITY

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BAYAT HOSSEIN

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Journal: PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS Year:2017 | Volume:12 | Issue:30 Page(s): 31-50

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A CRITICAL REVIEW OF BROWN'S SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM OF ACCESSIBILITY

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CAUSAL THEORY OF KNOWLEDGEQ1

EPISTEMIC ACCESSIBILITYQ1

EPR EXPERIMENTQ1

THE MIND’S EYEQ1

Abstract

According to the CAUSAL THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE, there must be a causal connection between the knower's belief and the fact known. On the other hand, Platonism requires accepting the things that have not causal power, and so mathematical entities cannot be objects of our knowledge. This conflict is called “the problem of accessibility”. Brown, contemporary American philosopher, claims that he has solved this problem. First, he appeals to EPR EXPERIMENTation, as a counterexample, and argues that the CAUSAL THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE is not correct. Then, he concludes that the condition of the causal connection is not necessary for knowledge. On the other hand, he assumes that there is a perceptual faculty, called “mind’s eye", and tries to show that there is a non-causal access to the mathematical entities. But neither of these two arguments is tenable. Because even if “the results of EPR cannot be explained on the basis of causal relation between the knower and the known” we cannot conclude that the CAUSAL THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE is not correct. We can only draw that the realm of scientific knowledge is divisible into two sub-realm: causal and quantomic. Therefore EPR, although may not be explained by theory of relativity, have another scientific support. While, there is no similar scientific theory for mathematical entities. On the other hand, mind’s eye only has explanatory role, not justificatory. It is clear that the access problem cannot be solved by appeal to unwarranted supposition of perceptual faculty.

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BAYAT, HOSSEIN. (2017). A CRITICAL REVIEW OF BROWN'S SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM OF ACCESSIBILITY. PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS, 12(30), 31-50. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/207882/en

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BAYAT HOSSEIN. A CRITICAL REVIEW OF BROWN'S SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM OF ACCESSIBILITY. PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS[Internet]. 2017;12(30):31-50. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/207882/en

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HOSSEIN BAYAT, “A CRITICAL REVIEW OF BROWN'S SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM OF ACCESSIBILITY,” PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS, vol. 12, no. 30, pp. 31–50, 2017, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/207882/en

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