Epistemic Evaluation

Purposeful Epistemology
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-19-964263-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press(UK)

Buch, Englisch, 302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 619 g

Epistemic Evaluation aims to explore and apply a particular methodology in epistemology. The methodology is to consider the point(s) or purpose(s) of our epistemic evaluations, and to pursue epistemological theory in light of such matters. Call this purposeful epistemology. The idea is that considerations about the point and purpose of epistemic evaluation might fruitfully constrain epistemological theory and yield insights for epistemological reflection. Several contributions to this volume explicitly address this general methodology, or some version of it. Others focus on advancing some application of the methodology rather than on theorizing about it. The papers go on to explore the idea that purposes allow one to understand the conceptual demands on knowing, examine how purposeful epistemology might shed light on the debate between internalist and externalist epistemologies, and further develop the idea of purposeful epistemology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Henderson, David K

Henderson, David K.

Greco, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction: The Point And Purpose Of Epistemic Evaluation

- Philosophical Methods and Evaluative Purposes

- 1: Georgi Gardiner: Teleologies and the Methodology of Epistemology

- 2: Elizabeth Fricker: Know First, Tell Later: The Truth about Craig on Knowledge

- 3: David Henderson and Terence Horgan: What's the Point?

- Contextualism and Pragmatic Enchroachment

- 4: Stephen R. Grimm: Knowledge, Practical Interests, and Rising Tides

- 5: Matthew McGrath: Two Purposes of Knowledge Attribution and the Contextualism Debate

- Does Knowledge Always Require Reasons?

- 6: Michael Williams: Knowledge in Practice

- 7: Jonathan M. Weinberg: Regress-Stopping and Disagreement for Epistemic Neopragmatists

- The Internalism/Externalism Debate

- 8: Sanford C. Goldberg: What is the subject-matter of the theory of epistemic justification?

- 9: Declan Smithies: Why Justification Matters

- Epistemic Norms as Social Norms

- 10: Peter J. Graham: Epistemic Normativity and Social Norms

- 11: John Greco: Testimonial Knowledge and the Flow of Information

Über Autor(innen)

David Henderson is Robert R Chambers Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

John Greco holds the Leonard and Elizabeth Eslick Chair in Philosophy at Saint Louis University.