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Beyond "Justification" - Dimensions of Epistemic Evaluation (Paperback, New edition)
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Beyond "Justification" - Dimensions of Epistemic Evaluation (Paperback, New edition)
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Much of the writing in Anglo-American epistemology in the twentieth
century focused on the conditions for beliefs being "justified." In
a book that seeks to shift the ground of debate within theory of
knowledge, William P. Alston finds that the century-long search for
a correct account of the nature and conditions of epistemic
justification misses the point. Alston calls for that search to be
suspended and for talk of epistemic justification to cease. He
proposes instead an approach to the epistemology of belief that
focuses on the evaluation of various "epistemic desiderata" that
may be satisfied by beliefs.Alston finds that features of belief
that are desirable for the goals of cognition include having an
adequate basis, being formed in a reliable way, and coherence
within bodies of belief. In Alston's view, a belief's being based
on an adequate ground and its being formed in a reliable way,
though often treated as competing accounts of justification, are
virtually identical. Beyond "Justification" also contains
discussions of fundamental questions about the epistemic status of
principles and beliefs and appropriate responses to various kinds
of skepticism.
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