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Belief, agency, and knowledge : essays on epistemic normativity /

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"Epistemology is not just about the nature of knowledge or the analysis of concepts such as ‘knows' and ‘justified', it's also about what we ought to believe and how we should investigate and reason about what is the case. This is a book focused on these normative aspects of epis...

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Main Author: Chrisman, Matthew (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2022.
Subjects:
Belief and doubt.
Virtue epistemology.
Croyance et doute.
Épistémologie de la vertu.
PHILOSOPHY.
Political.
Belief and doubt
Virtue epistemology
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • PART I. DOXASTIC AGENCY
  • 2. Belief are states not performances
  • 3. Belief formation doesn't exhaust doxastic agency
  • 4. The activity of maintaining beliefs
  • PART II. EPISTEMIC NORMS
  • 5. The aim of belief and the goal of truth
  • Doxastic involuntarism and 'Ought to Believe'
  • 7. Social foundations for epistemic normativity
  • PART III. EPISTEMIC DISCOURSE
  • 8. From epistemic contextualism to epistemic expressivism
  • 9. From epistemic expressivism to epistemic inferentialism.