Second Thoughts and the Epistemological Enterprise

Collected essays showing how social psychology illuminates epistemological problems, focusing on issues of self-knowledge and the nature of human reason. The book features specific examples of sceptical problems and also includes two entirely new essays. It will appeal to pyschologists as well philosophers.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Introspection and misdirection; 2. What is it like to be me?; 3. Distrusting reason; 4. The impurity of reason; 5. What reflective endorsement cannot do; 6. Belief in the face of controversy; 7. Naturalism vs. the first-person perspective; 8. Is there room for armchair theorizing in epistemology?; 9. The role of reasons in epistemology; 10. Doxastic justification is fundamental; 11. Our sense of self; 12. Our rational nature; Index.

About the author

Hilary Kornblith is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has written widely on topics in epistemology, philosophy of mind, and related areas, and is the author of Inductive Inference and Its Natural Ground (1995), Knowledge and Its Place in Nature (2002), On Reflection (2012), and A Naturalistic Epistemology: Selected Papers (2014).

Summary

Collected essays showing how social psychology illuminates epistemological problems, focusing on issues of self-knowledge and the nature of human reason. The book features specific examples of sceptical problems and also includes two entirely new essays. It will appeal to pyschologists as well philosophers.

Product details

• Authors: Hilary Kornblith, Hilary (University of Massachusetts Kornblith
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9781108724128
• ISBN: 978-1-108-72412-8
• No. of pages: 274
• 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