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"Do epistemic requirements vary along with facts about what promotes agents' well-being? Epistemic instrumentalists say 'yes', and thereby earn a lot of contempt. This contempt is a mistake on two counts. First, it is incorrectly based: the reasons typically given for it are misguided. Second, it fails to distinguish between first- and second-order epistemic instrumentalism; and, it happens, only the former is contemptible. In this book, Nathaniel P. Sharadin argues for rejecting epistemic instrumentalism as a first-order view not because it suffers extensional failures, but because it suffers explanatory ones. By contrast, he argues that epistemic instrumentalism offers a natural, straightforward explanation of why being epistemically correct matters. What emerges is a second-order instrumentalist explanation for epistemic authority that is neutral between competing first-order epistemic theories. This neutrality is an advantage. But, drawing on work from cognitive science and psychology, Sharadin argues that instrumentalists can abandon that neutrality in order to adopt a view he calls epistemic ecologism. Epistemic Instrumentalism Explained will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working in epistemology, ethics, and philosophy of mind"--
Llegir més - Autor/a Nathaniel (The University Of Hong Kong) Sharadin
- ISBN13 9780367558802
- ISBN10 0367558807
- Pàgines 200
- Any Edició 2022
- Fecha de publicación 01/07/2022
- Idioma Alemany, Francès
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Epistemic Instrumentalism Explained (Alemany, Francès)
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- Nathaniel (The University Of Hong Kong) Sharadin
- 9780367558802



