Epistemic Value

Epistemic Value

ISBN-10:
0199231184
ISBN-13:
9780199231188
Pub. Date:
11/16/2009
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10:
0199231184
ISBN-13:
9780199231188
Pub. Date:
11/16/2009
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Epistemic Value

Epistemic Value

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Overview

Recent epistemology has reflected a growing interest in issues about the value of knowledge and the values informing epistemic appraisal. Is knowledge more valuable that merely true belief or even justified true belief? Is truth the central value informing epistemic appraisal or do other values enter the picture? Epistemic Value is a collection of previously unpublished articles on such issues by leading philosophers in the field. It will stimulate discussion of the nature of knowledge and of directions that might be taken by the theory of knowledge. The contributors are Jason Baehr, Michael Brady, Berit Brogaard, Michael DePaul, Pascal Engel, Catherine Elgin, Alvin Goldman, John Greco, Stephen Grimm, Ward Jones, Martin Kusch, Jonathan Kvanvig, Michael Lynch, Erik Olsson, Wayne Riggs and Matthew Weiner.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780199231188
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 11/16/2009
Pages: 370
Product dimensions: 6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Adrian Haddock has been a Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Stirling since 2004. His current interests lie in the theory of knowledge and the philosophy of action. He recently edited (with Fiona Macpherson) Disjunctivism: Perception, Action, Knowledge (Oxford University Press, 2008).

Alan Millar has taught at the University of Stirling since 1971, where he is now a Professor of Philosophy. His main current interests are in the theory of knowledge and the philosophy of mind. His book Understanding People (Oxford University Press) was published in 2004. He was elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2005.

Since 2007, Professor Duncan Pritchard has occupied the Chair in Epistemology at the University of Edinburgh. Before that he was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Stirling. He has published extensively in the theory of knowledge, including two books, Epistemic Luck (Oxford University Press, 2005) and What is this Thing Called Knowledge? (Routledge, 2006). In 2007 he was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Alan Millar, Adrian Haddock, and Duncan PritchardPart One: The Value of Knowledge1. Reliabilism and the Value of Knowledge, Alvin I. Goldman,(Rutgers University), and Erik J. Olsson, (Lund University)2. Is There a Value Problem?, Jason Baehr, (Loyola Marymount University)3. Testimony and the Value of Knowledge, Martin Kusch, (University of Cambridge)4. The Value of Understanding, Jonathan Kvanvig, (Baylor University)5. Ugly Analyses and Value, Michael R. DePaul, (University of Notre Dame)6. The Goods and the Motivation of Believing, Ward E. Jones, (Rhodes University)7. Practical Reasoning and the Concept of Knowledge, Matthew Weiner, (University of Vermont)8. Pragmatic Encroachment and Epistemic Value, Pascal Engel, (University of Geneva)9. Luck, Knowledge, and Control, Wayne Riggs, (University of Oklahoma)Part Two: Truth and Epistemic Appraisal10. The Value of Truth and the Truth of Values, Michael P. Lynch, (University of Connecticut)11. Epistemic Normativity, Stephen R. Grimm, (Fordham University)12. Curiosity and the Value of Truth, Michael S. Brady, (University of Glasgow)13. Epistemic Value Monism, or How I Learned to Stop Caring About Truth, Berit Brogaard, (University of Missouri, St. Louis)Appendix: Symposium on Jonathan Kvanvig's The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Understanding14. Precis of The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Understanding, Jonathan Kvanvig, (Baylor University)15. The Value Problem, John Greco, (St. Louis University)16. Is Understanding Factive?, Catherine Z. Elgin, (Harvard University)17. Understanding, Knowledge and the Meno Requirement, Wayne D. Riggs, (University of Oaklahoma)18. Responses to Critics, Jonathan Kvanvig, (Baylor University)
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