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Reasons First explores the hypothesis that reasons have a basic explanatory role in ethics and epistemology. While widely accepted concerning moral worth, Schroeder argues that this idea also illuminates some long-standing puzzles to do with knowledge.
List of contents
- Preface
- Part 1: The Issues
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Reasons are Competitors
- Part 2: Rationality and Truth
- 3: Basic Perceptual Reasons
- 4: Subjective Reasons and Truth
- 5: The Apparent Factive Attitude View
- Part 3: How Evidence Rationalizes Belief
- 6: Balance in Epistemology
- 7: Epistemic Reasons as Right-Kind Reasons
- 8: Pragmatic Intellectualism
- 9: Doxastic Wrongs
About the author
Mark Schroeder is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. His research ranges widely in ethics, epistemology, and related areas, and his work has appeared in over two dozen journals. He is the author of Slaves of the Passions (OUP, 2007), Being For: Evaluating the Semantic Program of Expressivism (OUP, 2008), Noncognitivism in Ethics (Routledge, 2010), Explaining the Reasons We Share (OUP, 2014), and Expressing Our Attitudes (OUP, 2015).
Summary
Reasons First explores the hypothesis that reasons have a basic explanatory role in ethics and epistemology. While widely accepted concerning moral worth, Schroeder argues that this idea also illuminates some long-standing puzzles to do with knowledge.
Additional text
In his highly illuminating new book, Reasons First, Mark Schroeder shows us something of great importance. He takes the "Reasons First" program that has been so influential in ethics, and shows us what is the best way to extend this program from ethics to epistemology. This is important because if the Reasons First program is true at all, it should be true of epistemology as well as ethics
