Epistemology with a broad and long view / Richard Foley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foley, Richard, 1947- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (153 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

'Epistemology with a Broad and Long View' is an original and provocative challenge to standard epistemologies that assume that the reasonability of beliefs is wholly a function of considerations indicating their current likelihood. Richard Foley argues that this view, although widely accepted, is excessively narrow.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

2nd Half Title

1 Observations

2 The Standard View

2.1 Reasonable Belief and Knowledge

2.2 Reasons and Goals

2.3 Truth-Related Reasons

2.4 Different Senses of Reasons

2.5 The Truth-Now Goal

3 Against the Standard View, Part One

3.1 Belief Bribes

3.2 Ignoring Non-Truth-Related Considerations

3.3 Special Status of Truth-Related Reasons?

4 Against the Standard View, Part Two

4.1 Useful-Or-Interesting

4.2 Intellectual Risk

4.3 Can Locke's Exhortation Save the Standard View?

4.4 The Lottery, the Preface, and Perfect Accuracy

4.5 The Current Moment

5 Beliefs and Other Belief-Like Attitudes

5.1 Beliefs

5.2 Links With Behavior and Truth

5.3 Clustery Character

5.4 Limits of Control

5.5 Second-Order Beliefs

5.6 Intellectual Commitments

6 Toward a Less Constricted Epistemology

6.1 Escaping Narrowness

6.2 Being Responsible for Our Views

6.3 Pascal-Light Stories

6.4 Second-Order Beliefs and Internal Commitments Revisited

6.5 Beliefs and Intellectual Commitments Revisited

6.6 Truth-Related Reasons Revisited

6.7 A Framework

7 Epistemology, Ethics, Politics

Notes

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 8, 2024).

ISBN:

0-19-777279-X

0-19-777281-1

OCLC:

1433028002