Norm of belief /

John Gibbons presents an account of epistemic normativity. Belief seems to come with a built-in set of standards or norms - truth and reasonableness, for example - but which one is the fundamental norm of belief? He explains both the norms of knowledge and of truth in terms of the fundamental norm,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gibbons, John
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, ©2013.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Belief and doubt. Knowledge, Theory of. Croyance et doute. Théorie de la connaissance. epistemology. PHILOSOPHY > Epistemology. Belief and doubt Knowledge, Theory of Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""1. The Puzzle""; ""Subjectivism""; ""Objectivism""; ""The first-person point of view""; ""The ambiguity theory""; ""The last resort: nihilism""; ""Summary""; ""Part I. The Ambiguity Theory""; ""2. Subjective and Objective â€œOughtsâ€?""; ""The first proposal""; ""The second proposal""; ""The third proposal""; ""One more try""; ""3. Blaming the Question""; ""The regular â€œoughtâ€?""; ""The given""; ""Wide-scoping""; ""Contextualism""; ""Radical contextualism""; ""Incommensurability""; ""Part II. Objectivism""; ""4. The Derivation""; ""Two kinds of objectivists""
""The Bad Attempt""""Williamson""; ""Wedgwood""; ""5. Teleology""; ""The upside""; ""The limitations""; ""The main difficulty""; ""Variations""; ""Part III. The Natural Reaction""; ""6. Guidance""; ""Knowledge only""; ""The natural reaction""; ""Two kinds of guidance""; ""What difference does a mind make?""; ""Getting a grip""; ""Objective reasons to act""; ""Objective reasons to believe""; ""7. Access""; ""The constraint""; ""The regress""; ""Two explanations of privilege""; ""Worldly requirements""; ""Worldly explanations""; ""Explaining privilege""; ""Externalism and the love of Reason""
""The options""""Part IV. Subjectivism""; ""8. Knowledge versus Truth""; ""The practical case""; ""Commitment""; ""Defeaters""; ""Defining undermining""; ""Other possibilities""; ""The aim of belief""; ""The lottery""; ""Why knowledge?""; ""9. Moore""; ""Beliefâ€?s own standards""; ""Taking a stand""; ""Commitment""; ""Incoherence without inconsistency""; ""The first pass""; ""The second pass""; ""Back to (O)""; ""What they have in common""; ""Knowledge""; ""Justification""; ""10. The Moore Conditionals""; ""The Moore Conditionals""; ""The objectivist intuitions""; ""General and particular""
""The umbrella""""Inference from a false belief""; ""Moorean redundancy and triviality""; ""One kind of triviality""; ""Noninferential justification""; ""In between following and acting in accord""; ""First Order First""; ""Conclusion""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Z""