Beyond "justification": dimensions of epistemic evaluation
"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 accou...
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| Summary: | "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."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Physical Description: | XIII, 256 S. |
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| adam_text | Preface xi
List ofAbbreviations xv
INTRODUCTION i
i. What Counts as Epistemology? i
ii. Concentration on the Epistemology of Belief 5
iii. Basic Organization ofthe Book 6
Part I. The Naturalistic Approach
CHAPTER1. DISPENSING WITH JUSTIFICATION u
i. Conceptions of Epistemic Justification 11
ii. Comments on These Conceptions 15
iii. Conditions for the Justification of a Belief 19
iv. Attempts to Identify Epistemic Justification 21
CHAPTER2. THE EPISTEMIC POINT OF VIEW 29
i. True Belief as the Basic Goal of Cognition 29
ii. Truth and Other Goals of Cognition 34
iii. Objects of Epistemic Evaluation 37
CHAPTER3. THE EPISTEMIC DESIDERATA APPROACH 39
i. A List of Epistemic Desiderata 3 9
ii. An Outline of the Epistemic Desiderata Approach 47
iii. Interrelations of Desiderata 49
iv. Internalism and Externalism 51
v. Internalism and Externalism on Justificationism and on
the Epistemic Desiderata Approach 53
CHAPTER4. DEONTOLOG1CAL DESIDERATA 58
i. Preliminaries 58
ii. Basic Voluntary Control of Believing 62
iii. Other Modes of Voluntary Control of Believing 67
iv. Indirect Voluntary Influence on Believing 73
CHAPTER5. ADEQUACY OF GROUNDS OF BELIEF 81
i. Grounds and the Basing Relation 81
ii. Having Evidence and Basing a Belief on It 89
iii. Adequacy of Grounds and Truth 92
iv. Adequacy of Grounds—Preliminaries 94
v. Adequacy of Grounds and Epistemic Probability 98
vi. The Logical Construal of Epistemic Probability 104
vii. A Frequency Construal of Epistemic Probability 109
CHAPTER6. RELIABIL1TYAND OTHERTRUTH CONDUCIVE
DESIDERATA 114
i. The Problem of Generality 114
ii. Belief Forming Processes 120
iii. Belief Forming Mechanisms as Psychologically
Realized Functions 125
iv. The Problem of Generality Solved 129
v. Identity of Adequacy of Ground and Reliability of Process 132
vi. Objections and Complications 138
vii. Some More Serious Complications 143
viii. Proper Functioning of Cognitive Faculties 148
ix. Intellectual Virtues: Sosa and Goldman 152
x. Intellectual Virtues: Zagzebski 157
xi. Conclusion on Intellectual Virtue 161
CHAPTER7. ADDITIONAL EPISTEMIC DESIDERATA 162
i. Group III Desiderata 162
ii. Group V Desiderata 165
CHAPTER 8. WHERE PARTICULAR DESIDERATAARE OF
SPECIAL IMPORTANCE 170
i. Introductdon 170
ii. Reliability 171
iii. Group III Desiderata 172
iv. Deontological Desiderata 174
v. General Philosophical Assessment of Beliefs 175
vi. Assessment of Perceptual Beliefs: Preliminaries 178
vii. The Nature of Perception 180
viii. The Trath Conducivity of Grounds of Perceptual Beliefs 184
Part II. Ultimate Questions: The Epistemology of Epistemology
CHAPTER 9. CRITICAL QyESTIONS ABOUT EPISTEMOLOGICAL
METHODOLOGY 191
i. The Demand for a Final Settlement 191
ii. The Inevitability of a Regress 194
iii. Attempts to Avoid the Regress: Doxastic Practices 196
iv. Epistemic Circularity 201
v. Avoiding Epistemic Circularity 204
vi. The Pervasiveness of Epistemic Circularity 207
CHAPTER 10. SKEPTICISM 211
i. Types of Skepticism 211
ii. Disarming the Pyrrhonian Skeptic 217
iii. Humean Skepticism 221
iv. Skepticism Concerning Various Epistemic Desiderata 2 24
CHAPTER 11. THE EPISTEMIC DESIDERATA APPROACH AND
THE OVERALL EPISTEMIC ORGANIZATION OF BELIEF 230
i. Types of Foundationalism 230
ii. Coherentism and Contextualism 235
iii. Does the Epistemic Desiderata Approach Make a Difference? 239
iv. Are We Committed to Contextualism? 240
Envoi 243
Bibliography 247
Index 251
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