Trust Responsibly : Non-Evidential Virtue Epistemology / Jakob Ohlhorst.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ohlhorst, Jakob, author.

Series:

Routledge studies in epistemology.

Routledge Studies in Epistemology Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (160 pages)

Place of Publication:

2023.

New York, NY : Routledge, [2024]

Summary:

This book offers a defence of Wrightean epistemic entitlement, one of the most prominent approaches to hinge epistemology. It also systematically explores the connections between virtue epistemology and hinge epistemology. According to hinge epistemology, any human belief set is built within and upon a framework of pre-evidential propositions – hinges – that cannot be justified. Epistemic entitlement argues that we are entitled to trust our hinges. But there remains a problem. Entitlement is inherently unconstrained and arbitrary: We can be entitled to any hinge proposition under the right circumstances. In this book, the author argues that we need a non-arbitrariness clause that protects entitlement from defeat. This clause, he argues, is to require epistemic virtue. Virtuous cognitive dispositions provide the non-arbitrariness clause that protects entitlement from defeat. The epistemic character of the agent who holds a particular set of hinges tells us something about the hinges' epistemic status. Conversely, epistemic virtues are cognitive dispositions and capacities that rely on hinge propositions – without trusting in some hinges, we would be unable to exercise our virtues. Trust Responsibly will appeal to scholars and advanced students working on epistemology, Wittgenstein, and virtues.

Notes:

Includes index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-337446-8

1-000-96731-X

1-003-37446-8

9781003374466

OCLC:

1390915053