Normativity: epistemic and practical

by McHugh, Conor Way, Jonathan Whiting, Daniel

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What should I do? What should I think? Traditionally, ethicists tackle the first question, while epistemologists tackle the second. This volume is innovative in drawing together issues from epistemology and ethics and in exploring neglected connections between epistemic and practical normativity.

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Full title :Normativity : epistemic and practical / edited by Conor McHugh, Jonathan Way, and Daniel Whiting.

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Publication Date:©2018
Edition:First edition

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Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2018

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Includes index.

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Description:1 online resource

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ISBN:9780191818622, 0191818623, 9780191076466, 0191076465
oclc:on1028034501
LC Classification:BJ1458.3
Dewey Decimal:170/.44

Introduction -- Putting fallibilism to work -- Pragmatic approaches to belief -- The relevance of the wrong kind of reasons -- Directives for knowledge and belief -- How reasons are sensitive to available evidence -- Evidence and its limits -- The explanatory problem for cognitivism about practical reason -- Pragmatic encroachment: its problems are your problems! -- Why only evidential considerations can justify belief -- Practical interests and reasons for belief -- Two theses abut the distinctness of practical and theoretical normativity -- Reasoning with reasons -- Epistemic instrumentalism, permissibility, and reasons for belief -- Index.