{"id":2364,"date":"2026-06-07T20:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T19:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/?p=2364"},"modified":"2026-06-07T20:03:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T19:03:00","slug":"seminar-series-in-analytic-philosophy-2025-26-session-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/seminar-series-in-analytic-philosophy-2025-26-session-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminar Series in Analytic Philosophy 2025-26: Session 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Is Understanding a Source of Epistemic Justification?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">C\u00e9lia Teixeira (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">12 June 2026, 16:00 (Lisbon Time \u2013 WET)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sala Mattos Rom\u00e3o [C201.J] (Departamento de Filosofia)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Abstract:\u00a0<\/strong>The claim that understanding is a source of epistemic justification has been closely tied to the debate about the\u00a0<em>a priori<\/em>. How do we know\u00a0<em>a priori<\/em>\u00a0truths such as that bachelors are unmarried, or that knowledge entails truth? According to a widely held view, we do so by understanding alone\u2014and understanding is the source of the\u00a0<em>a priori<\/em>. I examine this view. I begin by showing that it is ambiguous between semantic understanding and rational understanding. Focusing on the former, I distinguish a weak role for semantic understanding\u2014on which it justifies beliefs about meaning\u2014from a strong role\u2014on which it justifies beliefs in non-semantic\u00a0<em>a priori<\/em>\u00a0truths. The weak role is uncontentious and unmysterious; the strong role is neither. I argue that semantic understanding might be the source of justification by which we know semantic truths, but not non-semantic\u00a0<em>a priori<\/em>\u00a0truths. For that, we need rational understanding. I then conclude by sketching an account of rational understanding as the source of most of our\u00a0<em>a priori<\/em>\u00a0knowledge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Understanding a Source of Epistemic Justification? C\u00e9lia Teixeira (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro) &nbsp; 12 June 2026, 16:00 (Lisbon Time \u2013 WET) Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Rom\u00e3o [C201.J] (Departamento de Filosofia) &nbsp; Abstract:\u00a0The claim that understanding is a source of epistemic justification has been closely tied to the debate about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2365,"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364\/revisions\/2365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}