Knowledge, truth, and duty : essays on epistemic justification, responsibility, and virtue / edited by Matthias Steup.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Steup, Matthias, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Justification (Theory of knowledge).

Duty.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 256 pages)

Edition:

First edition

Other Title:

Essays on epistemic justification, responsibility, and virtue

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This text examines epistemic duty, doxastic voluntarism, the normativity of justification, internalism versus externalism truth as the epistemic goal, and scepticism and the search for justification.

Contents:

"The ethics of belief" reconsidered / Susan Haack

Epistemic and moral duty / Bruce Russell

Epistemic justification and normativity / Richard Fumerton

Deciding to believe / Carl Ginet

Voluntary belief and epistemic evaluation / Richard Feldman

Doxastic voluntarism and the ethics of belief / Robert Audi

Internalism exposed / Alvin Goldman

Epistemic duty, evidence, and internality / Matthias Steup

Truth as the epistemic goal / Marian David

Value monism in epistemology / Michael R. DePaul

Reflective knowledge in the best circles / Ernest Sosa

Commonsensism in ethics and epistemology / Noah Lemos

Knowing people / Vrinda Dalmiya

Recovering understanding / Linda Zagzebski.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-47219-7

9786610472192

0-19-802956-X

1-4237-2750-9

OCLC:

191936971