Metaepistemology : realism and anti-realism / Christos Kyriacou, Robin McKenna, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kyriacou, Christos, editor.

McKenna, Robin, editor.

Series:

Palgrave innovations in philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Theory of.

Realism.

Anti-realism.

Physical Description:

xv, 314 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

Summary:

This book contains twelve chapters by leading and up-and-coming philosophers on metaepistemology, that is, on the nature, existence and authority of epistemic facts. One of the central divides in metaepistemology is between epistemic realists and epistemic anti-realists. Epistemic realists think that epistemic facts (such as the fact that you ought to believe what your evidence supports) exist independently of human judgements and practices, and that they have authority over our judgements and practices. Epistemic anti-realists think that, if epistemic facts exist at all, they are grounded in human judgements and practices, and gain any authority they have from our judgements and practices. This book considers both epistemic realist and anti-realist perspectives, as well as perspectives that "transcend" the realism/anti-realism dichotomy--back cover.

Contents:

Introduction / Christos Kyriacou and Robin McKenna

Part I. Epistemic Realism : The Core Expressivist Manoeuvre / Terence Cuneo

Epistemic Reductionism and the Moral-Epistemic Disparity / Chris Heathwood

From Moral Fixed Points to Epistemic Fixed Points / Christos Kyriacou

Normative Reasons for Mentalism / Eva Schmidt

Epistemic Consequentialism: Haters Gonna Hate / Nathaniel Sharadin

Part II. Epistemic Anti-realism : Knowledge, Reasons, and Errors About Error Theory / Charles Côté-Bouchard and Clayton Littlejohn

Constitutivism About Epistemic Normativity / Christopher Cowie and Alexander Greenberg

Correctness and Goodness / Allan Hazlett

The Genealogy of Relativism and Absolutism / Martin Kusch and Robin McKenna

Reasons Primitivism and Epistemic Expressivism / Teemu Toppinen

Part III. Beyond the Realism/Anti-realism Divide : What Anti-realism About Hinges Could Possibly Be / Annalisa Coliva

Epistemic Schmagency? / A.K. Flowerree

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9783319933689

331993368X

OCLC:

1035274606