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An important issue in epistemology concerns the source of epistemic normativity. Epistemic consequentialism maintains that epistemic norms are genuine norms that are conducive to epistemic value. This volume presents the latest work on epistemic consequentialism by authors that are sympathetic to th...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ahlström, Kristoffer, 1980- (Editor), Dunn, Jeffrey (Jeffrey Stewart) (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Consequentialism (Ethics)
Knowledge, Theory of.
Conséquentialisme.
Théorie de la connaissance.
Table of Contents:
  • The right in the good : a defense of teleological non-consequentialism / Clayton Littlejohn
  • Adaptive misbeliefs, value trade-offs, and epistemic responsibility / Nancy E. Snow
  • The naturalistic origins of epistemic consequentialism / Hilary Kornblith
  • Epistemic teleology : synchronic and diachronic / Ralph Wedgwood
  • The "consequentialism" in the "epistemic consequentialism" / Julia Driver
  • Good questions / Alejandro Pérez Carballo
  • Can all-accuracy approaches capture evidentialist norms? / Christopher J.G. Meacham
  • A problem for credal consequentialism
  • Michael Caie
  • Making things right : the true consequences of decision theory in epistemology / Richard Pettigrew
  • Accuracy, ratification, and the scope of epistemic consequentialism / James M. Joyce
  • Epistemic value and the Jamesian goals / Sophie Horowitz
  • Epistemic consequentialism and epistemic enkrasia / Amanda Askell
  • Epistemic free riding / Jeffrey Dunn.