Epistemic responsibility /

"Having adequate knowledge of the world is not just a matter of survival but also one of obligation. This obligation to "know well" is what philosophers have termed "epistemic responsibility." In this innovative and eclectic study, Lorraine Code explores the possibilities in...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Code, Lorraine (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2020]
Édition:Second edition.
Sujets:
Knowledge, Theory of.
Théorie de la connaissance.
epistemology.
Knowledge, Theory of
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Preface to the second edition
  • Preface
  • 1 Introduction: Epistemic Responsibility
  • I Intellectual Virtue
  • 2 Father and Son: A Case Study
  • Introduction: The Gosse Case
  • Foundations, Coherence, and Narrative
  • Some Interim Conclusions
  • 3 Toward a "Responsibilist" Epistemology
  • "The Raft and the Pyramid"
  • Epistemological Precedents
  • Responsibilism
  • Virtue-and Intellectual Virtues
  • Virtuous Character
  • A Subject's Nature, Environment, Epistemic Community
  • Recommendations
  • 4 The Ethics of Belief
  • The Ethical and the Epistemic
  • The Ethics of Belief
  • Belief and Choice
  • Implications
  • II Cognitive Activity
  • 5 The Knowing Subject
  • Theoretical Basis
  • Kant cum Piaget: Steps Toward the Personal
  • Knowers As Persons
  • Epistemology and Human Nature
  • Consequences
  • 6 Realism and Understanding
  • Realism, Truth, and Intellectual Virtue
  • Normative Realism
  • Subjectivism and Dogmatism
  • Understanding
  • The Lebenswelt: Cognitive Practice
  • 7 Epistemic Community
  • Community and Commonability
  • Cognitive Interdependence and Trust
  • Contracts, Forms of Life, and Practices
  • Epistemological Altruism
  • Consequences
  • III Epistemic Life
  • 8 Literature, Truth, and Understanding
  • Fiction as a Source of Understanding
  • Responsibility for Truth
  • The Case of Styron: The Factual and the Fictional
  • Implications
  • 9 Cognitive Practice
  • The Division of Intellectual Labor
  • Polanyi and/or Foucault
  • Education, Authority, and the Epistemic Community
  • 10 Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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