Trust Responsibly - Non-Evidential Virtue Epistemology

This book offers a defence of Wrightean epistemic entitlement, one of the most prominent approaches to hinge epistemology. It also systematically explores the connections between virtue epistemology and hinge epistemology.

List of contents

Introduction 1. Hinges, certainties, trust 2. Entitlement 3. Problems for entitlement: Demarcation, arbitrariness, and relativism 4. Virtue 5. Trust virtuously Conclusion

About the author

Jakob Ohlhorst is a postdoc at the Universities of Vienna and Amsterdam. Previously, he completed his Dr. Phil. at the University of Cologne. He has published 'Epistemic Austerity' at Synthese and 'Dual Processes, Dual Virtues' at Philosophical Studies, and both papers make key arguments for this book.

Product details

• Authors: Jakob Ohlhorst, Jakob (University of Vienna Ohlhorst
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.01.2025
• EAN: 9781032449074
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3244907-4
• No. of pages: 150
• Series: Routledge Studies in Epistemology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Psychology, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge