Knowledge, Truth, and Duty: Essays on Epistemic Justification, Responsibility, and Virtue

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Matthias Steup
Oxford University Press, 2001 - Philosophy - 256 pages
This volume gathers 11 essays on the fertile connection between ethics and epistemology. They examine the following topics: epistemic duty; doxastic voluntarism; the normativity of justification; internalism versus externalism; truth as the epistemic goal; scepticism 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.
 

Contents

Introduction
3
Epistemic Duty and the Normativity of Justification
19
Epistemic Deontology and Doxastic Voluntarism
61
Epistemic Deontology and the Internality of Justification
113
Justification and Truth
149
Epistemic Virtue and Criteria of Justified Belief
185
Beyond Deontology
219
Index
253
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Matthias Steup is at St Cloud State University.

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