Rational belief : structure, grounds, and intellectual virtue /

This title provides conceptions of belief and knowledge, offers a theory of how they are grounded, and connects them with the will and thereby with action, moral responsibility, and intellectual virtue. A unifying element is a commitment to representing epistemology - which is centrally concerned wi...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Audi, Robert, 1941- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Belief : its structure, content, and relation to the will
  • Dispositional beliefs and dispositions to believe
  • Doxastic voluntarism and the ethics of belief
  • Belief : a study in form, content, and justification
  • Normativity and virtue in epistemology
  • Moral perception and moral knowledge
  • Reliability as a virtue
  • Knowledge, justification, and the normativity of epistemology
  • Epistemological internalism and grounds of justification and knowledge
  • An internalist theory of normative grounds
  • Theoretical rationality : its sources, structure, and scope
  • Doxastic innocence : phenomenal conservatism and epistemological common sense
  • Skepticism about the a priori : self-evidence, defeasibility, and cogito propositions
  • Social epistemology
  • The place of testimony in the fabric of knowledge and justification
  • Testimony as a social foundation of knowledge
  • The ethics of belief and the morality of disagreement : intellectual responsibility and rational disagreement.