Normativity : epistemic and practical / edited by Conor McHugh, Jonathan Way and Daniel Whiting.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McHugh, Conor, editor.

Way, Jonathan, editor.

Whiting, Daniel, 1978- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Normativity (Ethics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Epistemic and practical

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

What should I do? What should I think? Traditionally, ethicists tackle the first question, while epistemologists tackle the second. This volume is innovative in drawing together issues from epistemology and ethics and in exploring neglected connections between epistemic and practical normativity.

Contents:

Introduction

Putting fallibilism to work

Pragmatic approaches to belief

The relevance of the wrong kind of reasons

Directives for knowledge and belief

How reasons are sensitive to available evidence

Evidence and its limits

The explanatory problem for cognitivism about practical reason

Pragmatic encroachment: its problems are your problems!

Why only evidential considerations can justify belief

Practical interests and reasons for belief

Two theses abut the distinctness of practical and theoretical normativity

Reasoning with reasons

Epistemic instrumentalism, permissibility, and reasons for belief

Index.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

0-19-107647-3

0-19-181862-3

0-19-107646-5