Reasons for Belief

Informationen zum Autor Andrew Reisner is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at McGill University. He has published a number of articles on theoretical reason and normativity. Asbjørn Steglich-Petersen is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Aarhus University. He has published widely in epistemology and metaphysics, and is editor of Metaphysics: 5 Questions (2011). Klappentext Addresses foundational questions about reasons for belief and uses new research to explore traditional epistemological concerns. Zusammenfassung This collection of essays addresses foundational questions about reasons for belief and uses new research to explore traditional epistemological concerns such as knowledge! justification and perceptually acquired beliefs. It will be of interest to philosophers working on epistemology! theoretical reason! rationality! perception and ethics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contributors; Introduction; Part I. Normative Reasons for Belief: 1. How to be a teleologist about epistemic reasons Asbjørn Steglich-Petersen; 2. Is there reason to be theoretically rational? Andrew Reisner; 3. Epistemic motivation: towards a metaethics of belief Veli Mitova; 4. Error theory and reasons for belief Jonas Olson; 5. Can reasons for belief be debunked? Nishi Shah; Part II. Reasons and Epistemic Justification: 6. Reasons and the justification of belief Clayton Littlejohn; 7. Perception, generality and reasons Hannah Ginsborg; 8. Immediate warrant, epistemic responsibility, and Moorean dogmatism Adam Leite; 9. Primitively rational belief-forming practices Ralph Wedgwood; 10. What does it take to 'have' a reason? Mark Schroeder; 11. Knowledge and reasons for belief Alan Millar; 12. What is the swamping problem? Duncan Pritchard.

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• Authors: Andrew Reisner, Andrew (Mcgill University Reisner, Andrew Steglich-Petersen Reisner, REISNER ANDREW STEGLICH PETERSEN
• Assisted by: Andrew Reisner (Editor), Asbj Rn Steglich-Petersen (Editor), Asbjorn Steglich-Petersen (Editor), Asbjørn Steglich-Petersen (Editor), Asbjrn Steglich-Petersen (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.06.2011
• EAN: 9781107006874
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00687-4
• No. of pages: 284
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge