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Well-Founded Belief - New Essays on the Epistemic Basing Relation (Hardcover)
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Well-Founded Belief - New Essays on the Epistemic Basing Relation (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Epistemology
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Epistemological theories of knowledge and justification draw a
crucial distinction between one's simply having good reasons for
some belief and one's actually basing one's belief on good reasons.
While the most natural kind of account of basing is causal in
nature-a belief is based on a reason if and only if the belief is
properly caused by the reason-there is hardly any widely accepted,
counterexample-free account of the basing relation among
contemporary epistemologists. Further inquiry into the nature of
the basing relation is therefore of paramount importance for
epistemology. Without an acceptable account of the basing relation,
epistemological theories remain both crucially incomplete and
vulnerable to errors that can arise when authors assume an
implausible view of what it takes for beliefs to be held on the
basis of reasons. Well-Founded Belief brings together 16 essays
written by leading epistemologists to explore this important topic
in greater detail. The chapters in this collection are divided into
two broad categories: (i) the nature of the basing relation; and
(ii) basing and its applications. The chapters in the first section
are concerned, principally, with positively characterizing the
epistemic basing relation and criticizing extant accounts of it,
including extant accounts of the relationship between epistemic
basing and propositional and doxastic justification. The latter
chapters connect epistemic basing with other topics of interest in
epistemology as well as ethics, including: epistemic disjunctivism,
epistemic injustice, agency, epistemic conservativism, epistemic
grounding, epistemic genealogy, practical reasoning, and practical
knowledge.
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