Rationality in Context - Unstable Virtues in an Uncertain World

This book uses the psychological literature on rationality to weigh in on the recent debate between virtue epistemologists and epistemic situationists. It argues that both sides have misconstrued the literature and that an interactionist framework is needed to square epistemic theory with empirical facts about reasoning and inference.

List of contents

1. Introduction Part 1: The Virtue-situation Debate 2. Meliorism and the Psychological Sources of Cognitive Bias 3. Cognitive Bias and Epistemic Virtue Theories 4. The Situationist Challenge, Part 1 5. The Situationist Challenge, Part 2 Part 2: Epistemic Interactionism 6. Epistemic Interactionism 7. Reliabilist Virtues and Ecological Rationality 8. Responsibilist Virtues and Collectivist Rationality 9. The Replication Crisis

About the author

Steven Bland is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Huron University College, in London, Ontario, Canada. He is the author of Epistemic Relativism and Scepticism: Unwinding the Braid (2018), as well as several articles in the fields of epistemology, the philosophy of science, and early analytic philosophy.

Product details

• Authors: Steven Bland, Steven (Huron University College Bland
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.05.2025
• EAN: 9781032511214
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3251121-4
• No. of pages: 292
• 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, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition