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First comprehensive treatment of the ontology of epistemic normative notions including reasons, justification, and rationality, reflecting important current debates.
List of contents
Acknowledgements; List of contributors; Introduction: the Factive Turn Veli Mitova; Part I. Demons, Evidence, Justification: 1. Epistemological disjunctivism and the biscopic treatment of radical scepticism Duncan Pritchard; 2. Your evidence is the set of facts that are manifest to you Ram Neta; 3. Factivity and evidence Patrick Rysiew; 4. Internalism, factivity, and sufficient reason Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa; 5. Reassessing the case against evidential externalism Giada Fratantonio and Aidan McGlynn; 6. The new evil demon and the devil in the details Mikkel Gerken; Part II. Belief, Knowledge, Action: 7. Knowledge, action, and the Factive Turn Timothy Williamson; 8. Objectivism and subjectivism in epistemology Clayton Littlejohn; 9. False beliefs and the reasons we don't have Maria Alvarez; 10. Motivating reason to slow the Factive Turn in epistemology J. Drake; 11. Deflationary pluralism about motivating reasons Daniel Fogal; 12. The non-Factive Turn in epistemology: some hypotheses John Turri; Bibliography; Index.
About the author
Veli Mitova is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Johannesburg, and co-founder of the African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science. She is the author of Believable Evidence (Cambridge, 2017).
Summary
This volume marks a sea change in epistemology - the move away from thinking of reasons for belief as psychological to thinking of them as facts. It will advance current debates around this 'factive turn', exploring core epistemological themes such as perception, evidence, justification, knowledge, scepticism, rationality, and action.
