Epistemic Reasons, Norms and Goals

by Martin Grajner (Editor), Pedro Schmechtig (Editor)

Overview

What are epistemic reasons? What are epistemic norms? What is our basic epistemic goal? In recent years, questions about epistemic reasons, norms, and goals have seen an upsurge of interest. Pursuing these questions has not only proven fertile for our understanding of key concepts and phenomena studied in epistemology, but also for a wide area of issues in philosophy of mind and action and in philosophy of language and meta-ethics. The present volume brings together eighteen essays, seventeen of them new, by established and upcoming philosophers in the field. The contributions are arranged into four sections: (1) epistemic reasons, (2) different aspects of epistemic norms, (3) epistemic consequentialism, and (4) epistemic goals and values. The volume is key reading for researchers and students of philosophy interested in epistemic normativity and beyond.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110493634
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	10/24/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	462
File size:	5 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Martin Grajner and Pedro Schmechtig, TU Dresden, Germany.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix

Introduction: Epistemic Reasons, Norms and Goals Martin Grajner Pedro Schmechtig 1

I Epistemic Reasons

In Defense of Psychologism About Reasons Martin Grajner 33

Learning from Learning from our Mistakes Clayton Littlejohn 51

Destabilizing the Error Theory Terence Cuneo 71

Peer Disagreement, Rational Requirements, and Evidence of Evidence as Evidence Against Andrew Reisner 95

II Epistemic Norms

Belief, Truth and Radical Disagreement Nicholas Unwin 117

Assertion, Knowledge and Rational Credibility: The Scoreboard Mona Simion 137

Commonality Reconsidered: On the Common Source of Epistemic Standards Davide Fassio 165

Epistemic Standards: High Hopes and Low Expectations Erik Stei 185

What do I care About Epistemic Norms? Veli Mitova 199

III Epistemic Consequentialism

Epistemic Normativity: From Direct to Indirect Epistemic Consequentialism Hamid Vahid 227

Tradeoffs, Self-Promotion, and Epistemic Teleology Chase Wrenn 249

Epistemic Consequentialism: Its Relation to Ethical Consequentialism and the Truth-Indication Principle Jochen Briesen 277

How to Overstretch the Ethics-Epistemology Analogy: Berker's Critique of Epistemic Consequentialism Christian Piller 307

IV Epistemic Goals and Values

External Goals and Inherent Norms - A Cluster-Conception of Epistemic Normativity Pedro Schmechtig 325

The Aim of Belief and the Goal of Truth: Reflections on Rosenberg Matthew Chrisman 357

Ought to Believe, Evidential Understanding and the Pursuit of Wisdom Christos Kyriacou 383

Epistemic Axlology Duncan Pritchard 407

Objectual Understanding, Factivity and Belief J. Adam Carter Emma C. Gordon 423

Contributors 443

Author Index 445

Subject Index 449