Is Truth the Primary Epistemic Goal? (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	De Gruyter
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Epistemische Studien / Epistemic Studies
Release date:	2010
First published:	2010
Authors:	Markus Patrick Hess
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	165
ISBN-13:	978-3-11-032938-4
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge Promotions
LSN:	3-11-032938-7
Barcode:	9783110329384

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