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This volume gathers eleven new and three previously published essays on the fertile connection between ethics and epistemology. They examine the following topics: epistemic duty, doxastic voluntarism, the normativity of justification, internalism vs. externalism, truth as the epistemic goal, skepticism and the search for the criteria of justification, virtue epistemology, and understanding as an epistemic value. Among the contributors are Erneat Sosa, Linda Zagzebski, Susan Haack, and Alvin Goldman.
This book features original essays by leading epistemologists that
address questions related to epistemic dilemmas from a variety of
new, sometimes unexpected, angles. It seems plausible that there
can be "no win" moral situations in which no matter what one does
one fails some moral obligation. Is there an epistemic analog to
moral dilemmas? Are there epistemically dilemmic
situations-situations in which we are doomed to violate an
epistemic requirement? If there are, when exactly do they arise and
what can we learn from them? The contributors to this volume cover
a wide variety of positions on epistemic dilemmas. The coverage
ranges from discussions of the nature of epistemic dilemmas to
arguments that there are no such things to suggestions for how to
resolve (or at least live with) epistemic dilemmas to proposals for
how thinking about epistemic dilemmas can be used to inform
theorizing in other areas of epistemology. Epistemic Dilemmas will
be of interest to scholars and advanced students in epistemology
working on the nature of justification and evidential support,
higher-order requirements, or suspension of judgment.
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