Learning from our mistakes : epistemology for the real world / William J. Talbott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Talbott, W. J., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Theory of--History.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 348 pages)

Other Title:

Epistemology for the real world

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

William J. Talbott provides a new framework for understanding the history of Western epistemology and uses it to propose a new way of understanding rational belief that can be applied to pressing social and political issues. This framework is used to articulate a new theory of prejudice and a new diagnosis of the sources of inequity in the U.S. criminal justice system, as well as insight into the proliferation of tribal and fascist epistemologies based on alt-facts and alt-truth.

Contents:

The proof paradigm and the causal revolution in epistemology

A new way of understanding epistemic rationality

And epistemic irrationality

More on epistemic rationality

Clarifications, responses to objections and conclusion.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-756768-1

0-19-756767-3