Rational belief : structure, grounds, and intellectual virtue / Robert Audi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Audi, Robert, 1941- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Belief and doubt.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 281 pages)

Other Title:

Structure, grounds, and intellectual virtue

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Summary:

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 with belief - as integrated with a plausible philosophy of mind that does justice both to the nature of belief and to the conditions for its formation and regulation.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 30, 2015).

ISBN:

0-19-022186-0