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The Norm of Belief (Paperback)
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The Norm of Belief (Paperback)
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John Gibbons presents an original account of epistemic normativity.
Belief seems to come with a built-in set of standards or norms. One
task is to say where these standards come from. But the more basic
task is to say what those standards are. In some sense, beliefs are
supposed to be true. Perhaps they're supposed to constitute
knowledge. And in some sense, they really ought to be reasonable.
Which, if any of these is the fundamental norm of belief? The Norm
of Belief argues against the teleological or instrumentalist
conception of rationality that sees being reasonable as a means to
our more objective aims, either knowledge or truth. And it tries to
explain both the norms of knowledge and of truth in terms of the
fundamental norm, the one that tells you to be reasonable. But the
importance of being reasonable is not explained in terms of what it
will get you, or what you think it will get you, or what it would
get you if only things were different. The requirement to be
reasonable comes from the very idea of what a genuine requirement
is. That is where the built-in standards governing belief come
from, and that is what they are.
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