Epistemic Defeat - A Treatment of Defeat as an Independent Phenomenon

A number of well-developed theories shed light on the question, under what circumstances our beliefs enjoy epistemic justification. Yet, comparatively little is known about epistemic defeat-when new information causes the loss of epistemic justification. This book proposes and defends a detailed account of epistemic defeaters. The main kinds of defeaters are analyzed in detail and integrated into a general framework that aims to explain how beliefs lose justification. It is argued that defeaters introduce incompatibilities into a noetic system and thereby prompt a structured re-evaluation process that makes a justified reinstatement of the defeated belief impossible. The account is then applied to the topic of disagreement, where it is used in an argument for conciliationism, as well as a new explanation for higher-order defeat. Throughout the book, the notion of defeat is the center of attention, while a number of new issues are discussed at the intersections of defeat and justification. Specifically, new problems are raised for broadly internalist accounts of defeat, a fully descriptive reliabilist account of defeat is provided, and the case for normative defeat is revisited.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Jan Constantin, University of Cologne, Cologne.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Jan Constantin
• Verlag: De Gruyter
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 08.05.2023
• EAN: 9783111269993
• ISBN: 978-3-11-126999-3
• Seiten: 287
• Abmessung: 155 mm x 17 mm x 230 mm
• Gewicht: 449 g
• Illustration: 2 b/w tbl.
• Serien: Epistemische Studien / Epistemic Studies; ISSN; Epistemic Studies, 47
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Philosophie > 20. und 21. Jahrhundert; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Philosophie: Antike bis Gegenwart