Epistemic Rationality and Epistemic Normativity

Informationen zum Autor Patrick Bondy is Assistant Professor at Saint Mary's University! Canada. He has previously held appointments at Trent University and Brandon University! and a Postdoctoral Fellowship with the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University. His research has appeared in Dialogue! Synthese! American Philosophical Quarterly! and Pacific Philosophical Quarterly. Zusammenfassung The aim of this book is to answer two important questions about the issue of normativity in epistemology: Why are epistemic reasons evidential and what makes epistemic reasons and rationality normative? Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. Kinds of Reasons 3. Being Guided by Reasons 4. Epistemic Deontologism and Strong Doxastic Voluntarism 5. The Instrumental Conception of Epistemic Rationality 6. Two Problems for the Instrumental Conception of Epistemic Rationality 7. The Instrumental Normativity of Epistemic Rationality

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• Authors: Patrick Bondy, Patrick (Brandon University Bondy, Bondy Patrick
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9781138220584
• ISBN: 978-1-138-22058-4
• No. of pages: 168
• Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy; Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge