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Is Truth the Primary Epistemic Goal? (Hardcover)
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Is Truth the Primary Epistemic Goal? (Hardcover)
Series: Epistemische Studien / Epistemic Studies
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This book is focused on a problem that has aroused the most
controversy in recent epistemological debate, which is whether the
truth can or cannot be the fundamental epistemic goal. Traditional
epistemology has presupposed the centrality of truth without giving
a deeper analysis. To epistemic value pluralists, the claim that
truth is the fundamental value seems unjustified. Their central
judgement is that we can be in a situation where we do not attain
truth but something else that is also epistemically valuable. In
contrast, epistemic value monists are committed to the view that
one can only attain something of epistemic value by attaining
truth. It was necessary to rethink the long-accepted platitude that
truth is our primary epistemic goal, once several objections about
epistemic value were formulated. The whole debate is instructive
for understanding how the epistemic value domain is structured.
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