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Epistemic values : collected papers in epistemology /

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"This book collects 20 papers in epistemology by Linda Zagzebski, covering her entire career of more than 25 years. She is one of the founders of contemporary epistemology and is well-known for broadening the field and re-focusing it on epistemic virtue and epistemic value. The subject areas of...

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Main Author: Zagzebski, Linda Trinkaus, 1946- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Knowledge, Theory of.
Théorie de la connaissance.
epistemology.
Epistemology.
Religious.
Philosophy.
RELIGION.
Knowledge, Theory of
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • I. KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
  • 1. What Is Knowledge?
  • 2. Must Knowers Be Agents?
  • 3. Recovering Understanding
  • 4. Toward a Theory of Understanding
  • II. INTELLECTUAL VIRTUE
  • 5. Intellectual Virtues: Admirable Traits of Character
  • 6. Trust
  • 7. Intellectual Virtue Terms and the Division of Linguistic Labor
  • III. EPISTEMIC VALUE
  • 8. From Reliabilism to Virtue Epistemology
  • 9. Search for the Source of Epistemic Good
  • 10. Intellectual Motivation and the Good of Truth
  • 11. Epistemic Value and the Primacy of What We Care About
  • IV. VIRTUE IN RELIGIOUS EPISTEMOLOGY
  • 12. Religious Knowledge and the Virtues of the Mind
  • 13. Phronesis and Religious Belief
  • 14. Religious Trust, Anti-Trust, and Reasons for Religious Belief
  • V. INTELLECTUAL AUTONOMY AND AUTHORITY
  • 15. Ethical and Epistemic Egoism and the Ideal of Autonomy
  • 16. Defense of Epistemic Authority
  • 17. Intellectual Autonomy
  • VI. SKEPTICISM AND THE GETTIER PROBLEM
  • 18. Inescapability of Gettier Problems
  • 19. First Person and Third Person Reasons and the Regress Problem
  • 20. Moral Transcendental Argument against Skepticism.