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Format: 1 online resource.

ISBN: 9780197660416

Series Statement: Oxford scholarship online

Content: The most important questions in life are questions about what we should do and what we should believe. The first of these questions has received considerable attention by normative ethicists, who search for a complete systematic account of right action. This book is about the second question: what should we believe? 'Right Belief and True Belief' starts by defining a new field of inquiry author Daniel J. Singer calls 'normative epistemology', that mirrors normative ethics by searching for a systematic account of right belief-belief that is closest to the truth.

Note: Also issued in print: 2023.

Additional Edition: Print version : ISBN 9780197660386

Language: English

DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197660386.001.0001

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Format: VII, 244 Seiten.

ISBN: 978-0-19-766038-6

Content: The most important questions in life are questions about what we should do and what we should believe. The first kind of question has received considerable attention by normative ethicists, who search for a complete systematic account of right action. This book is about the second kind of question. Right Belief and True Belief starts by defining a new field of inquiry named 'normative epistemology' that mirrors normative ethics in searching for a systematic account of right belief. The book then lays out and defends a deeply truth-centric account of right belief called `truth-loving epistemic consequentialism.' Truth-loving epistemic consequentialists say that what we should believe (and what credences we should have) can be understood in terms of what conduces to us having the most accurate beliefs (credences). The view straight-forwardly vindicates the popular intuition that epistemic norms are about getting true beliefs and avoiding false beliefs, and it coheres well with how scientists, engineers, and statisticians think about what we should believe. Many epistemologists have rejected similar views in response to several persuasive objections, most famously including trade-off and counting-blades-of-grass objections. Right Belief and True Belief shows how a simple truth-based consequentialist account of epistemic norms can avoid these objections and argues that truth-loving epistemic consequentialism can undergird a general truth-centric approach to many questions in epistemology

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 9780197660409

Language: English

Subjects: Philosophy

Keywords: Glaube ; Konsequentialismus ; Normativität ; Erkenntnistheorie

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Format: 1 online resource (XII, 305 p.)

ISBN: 9783110612318 , 9783110766820

Series Statement: Eide : Foundations of Ontology , 11

Content: A new wave of thinkers from across different disciplines within the analytical tradition in philosophy has recently focused on critical, societal challenges, such as the silencing and questioning of the credibility of oppressed groups, the political polarization that threatens the good functioning of democratic societies across the globe, or the moral and political significance of gender, race, or sexual orientation.Appealing to both well-established and younger international scholars, this volume delves into some of the most relevant problems and discussions within the area, bringing together for the first time different essays within what we deem to be a "political turn in analytic philosophy."This political turn consists of putting different conceptual and theoretical tools from epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and metaphysics at the service of social and political change. The aim is to ensure a better understanding of some of the key features of our social environments in an attempt to achieve a more just and equal society.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Acknowledgements -- , Table of Contents -- , Editor's Introduction -- , Part I: Analytic Philosophy and Social Involvement -- , Analytic Philosophy as Philosophical Activism -- , Conceptual Engineering and Neurath's Boat: A Return to the Political Roots of Logical Empiricism -- , Part II: Mind, Knowledge, and the Social World -- , Political Epistemology -- , Intellectual Vices in Conditions of Oppression: The Turn to the Political in Virtue Epistemology -- , Epistemic De-Platforming -- , Philosophy of Mind after Implicit Biases -- , Ameliorative Inquiry in Epistemology -- , Part III: Meaning, Politics, and Identity -- , Tackling Verbal Derogation: Linguistic Meaning, Social Meaning and Constructive Contestation -- , The Power to Shape Contexts: The Transmission of Descriptive and Evaluative Contents -- , Hermeneutical Injustice and Conceptual Landscaping: The Benefits and Responsibilities of Expanding Conceptual Landscaping beyond Failure Reparation -- , The Meaning of 'Woman' and the Political Turn in Philosophy of Language -- , Part IV: Epistemology and Polarization -- , Affective Polarization and Testimonial and Discursive Injustice -- , Philosophical Considerations of Political Polarization -- , Notes on Contributors -- , Index , Issued also in print. , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English.

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Additional Edition: ISBN 9783110612998

Additional Edition: ISBN 9783110604870

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9783110612318

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