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Epistemic Instrumentalism Explained (Hardcover)
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Epistemic Instrumentalism Explained (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Epistemology
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Do epistemic requirements vary along with facts about what promotes
agents' well-being? Epistemic instrumentalists say 'yes', and
thereby earn a lot of contempt. This contempt is a mistake on two
counts. First, it is incorrectly based: the reasons typically given
for it are misguided. Second, it fails to distinguish between
first- and second-order epistemic instrumentalism; and, it happens,
only the former is contemptible. In this book, Nathaniel P.
Sharadin argues for rejecting epistemic instrumentalism as a
first-order view not because it suffers extensional failures, but
because it suffers explanatory ones. By contrast, he argues that
epistemic instrumentalism offers a natural, straightforward
explanation of why being epistemically correct matters. What
emerges is a second-order instrumentalist explanation for epistemic
authority that is neutral between competing first-order epistemic
theories. This neutrality is an advantage. But, drawing on work
from cognitive science and psychology, Sharadin argues that
instrumentalists can abandon that neutrality in order to adopt a
view he calls epistemic ecologism. Epistemic Instrumentalism
Explained will be of interest to researchers and advanced students
working in epistemology, ethics, and philosophy of mind.
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