Epistemic value / edited by Adrian Haddock, Alan Millar, and Duncan Pritchard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haddock, Adrian, editor.

Millar, Alan, 1947- editor.

Pritchard, Duncan, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Theory of.

Epistemics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 360 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Recent epistemology has reflected a growing interest in issues about the value of knowledge and the values informing epistemic appraisal. Is knowledge more valuable that merely true belief or even justified true belief? Is truth the central value informing epistemic appraisal or do other values enter the picture? Epistemic Value is a collection of previously unpublished articles on such issues by leading philosophers in the field. It will stimulate discussion of the natureof knowledge and of directions that might be taken by the theory of knowledge. The contributors are Jason Baehr, Michael Br

Contents:

Introduction / Alan Millar, Adrian Haddock and Duncan Pritchard

I. Value of Knowledge

1. Reliabilism and the Value of Knowledge / Alvin Goldman and Erik J. Olsson

2. Is There a Value Problem? / Jason Baehr

3. Testimony and the Value of Knowledge / Martin Kusch

4. The Value of Understanding / Jonathan Kvanvig

5. Ugly Analyses and Value / Michael R. DePaul

6. The Goods and the Motivation of Believing / Ward E. Jones

7. Practical Reasoning and the Concept of Knowledge / Matthew Weiner

8. Pragmatic Encroachment and Epistemic Value / Pascal Engel

9. Luck, Knowledge, and Control / Wayne D. Riggs

II. Truth and Epistemic Appraisal

10. The Values of Truth and the Truth of Values / Michael P. Lynch

11. Epistemic Normativity / Stephen R. Grimm

12. Curiosity and the Value of Truth / Michael S. Brady

13. The Trivial Argument for Epistemic Value Pluralism, or, How I Learned to Stop Caring about Truth / Berit Brogaard

Appendix. Symposium on Jonathan Kvanvig's: The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Understanding

A. Precis of The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Understanding / Jonathan Kvanvig

B. The Value Problem / John Greco

C. Is Understanding Factive? / Catherine Z. Elgin

D. Understanding, Knowledge, and the Meno Requirement / Wayne D. Riggs

E. Responses to Critics / Jonathan Kvanvig.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-157112-1

9786612348860

1-282-34886-8

OCLC:

463184605