Knowledge, Truth, and Duty: Essays on Epistemic Justification, Responsibility, and VirtueMatthias Steup 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. |
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