Reasons first / Mark Schroeder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schroeder, Mark Andrew, 1977- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reasoning.

Rationalism.

Reason.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 274 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Other Title:

Reasons 1st

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

Reasons First explores the hypothesis that reasons have a basic explanatory role in ethics and epistemology. While widely accepted concerning moral worth, Schroeder argues that this idea also illuminates some long-standing puzzles to do with knowledge.

Contents:

Part I The issues

1 Introduction

2 Reasons are competitors

Part II Rationality and truth

3 Basic perceptual reasons

4 Subjective reasons and truth

5 The apparent factive attitude view

Part III How evidence rationalizes belief

6 Balance in epistemology

7 Epistemic reasons as right-kind reasons

8 Pragmatic intellectualism

9 Doxastic wrongs

Part IV Knowledge and moral worth

10 Acting and believing well

11 The Kantian account of knowledge

12 Reasons first?.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-190474-0

0-19-263869-6

OCLC:

1256820869