The nature and normativity of defeat /
Defeat is the loss of justification for believing something in light of new information. This Element mainly aims to work towards developing a novel account of defeat. It distinguishes among three broad views in the epistemology of defeat, scepticism, internalism and externalism and argues that scep...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2023.
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| Series: | Cambridge elements. Elements in epistemology.
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| Summary: | Defeat is the loss of justification for believing something in light of new information. This Element mainly aims to work towards developing a novel account of defeat. It distinguishes among three broad views in the epistemology of defeat, scepticism, internalism and externalism and argues that sceptical and internalist accounts of defeat are bound to remain unsatisfactory. As a result, any viable account of defeat must be externalist. While there is no shortage of externalist accounts, the Element provides reason to think that extant accounts remain unsatisfactory. The Element also takes on the constructive tasks of developing an alternative account of defeat and showing that it improves on the competition. |
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| Physical Description: | 61 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [58]-61). |
| ISBN: | 1009454064 9781009454063 9781009161039 1009161032 |