A number of related questions have been discussed under the general title of 'the justification of desert claims.' Some apparently take the question about justification to be a question about epistemic justification (see, for example, McLeod 1995, 89).
WASHINGTON ― The Trump administration's justifications for adding a question about citizenship to the 2020 census aren't particularly strong.
Another way of asking a justification question seeks not a normative connection between qualities of persons and moral obligation, but an explanation for our belief that humans (and perhaps other beings) are owed respect, for example: What in our experience of other humans or in our evolutionary history explains the development and power of this belief?
To me, it's not even a question of justification but the thing is, when you push people to their limits, when you leave them no way out, what are the motives of suicide bombers?
It is perhaps tempting to imagine that the relation between evidence and belief is purely epistemological, a question of justification.
Thus understood, Rawls's concern with the stability of justice as fairness, which motivated the move to political liberalism, is itself a question of justification (Weithman, 2010).
By 'lovable' here Velleman seems to mean able to be loved, not worthy of being loved, for nothing Velleman says here speaks to a question about the justification of my loving this person rather than that.
That time, EFSA concluded that certain assumptions underlying Séralini's statistics "led to misleading results" and that his paper did "not present a sound scientific justification" to question the GM crop's safety.
But the type of justification in question does not seem to be purely epistemic, hence not the proper province of epistemology (even social epistemology).
Since an alien, as well as a citizen, is a "person" for equal protection purposes, a concern for fiscal integrity is no more compelling a justification for the questioned classification in these cases than it was in Shapiro.
All above experimental findings and their theoretical justification raise questions on lack of a single physical mechanism on the origin and evolution of ripples on solid surface.
