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Rationality and Epistemic Sophistication (Hardcover)
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Rationality and Epistemic Sophistication (Hardcover)
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What factors determine whether a person's beliefs are epistemically
rational? Many traditional accounts contend that those factors lie
in the beliefs themselves. For example, a belief can fit with one's
evidence, it can originate in reliable (or otherwise virtuous)
processes, or it can cohere with other beliefs (some of which may
be self-justifying). In this provocative book, Franz-Peter
Griesmaier presents a new picture of epistemic rationality,
emphasizing the role of the agent rather than the belief. The
rationality of an agent's beliefs ultimately depends on her
epistemic sophistication, which is manifest in the stringency of
her standards, in the skill she has in accessing and evaluating
evidence, and in the wisdom she displays in choosing contextually
appropriate standards. To be epistemically rational means, in this
view, that one has discharged one's epistemic duties by using the
contextually proper standards for finding and evaluating the
available evidence during the process of belief formation. In the
course of defending this view, Griesmaier discusses a wide variety
of topics from the perspective of a unifying framework. These
topics include the possibility of lucky justification, the
importance of error avoidance, the problem of simplicity, various
forms of evidentialism, doxastic voluntarism, epistemic
deontologism, the question of belief's aim, contextualism, and the
connections between his account and formal models of justification
and knowledge, such as epistemic and justification logics.
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