206 Pages
by
Routledge
206 Pages
by
Routledge
206 Pages
by
Routledge
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Do epistemic requirements vary along with facts about what promotes agents' well-being? Epistemic instrumentalists say 'yes', and thereby earn a lot of contempt. This contempt is a mistake on two counts. First, it is incorrectly based: the reasons typically given for it are misguided. Second, it fails to distinguish between first- and second -order epistemic instrumentalism; and, it happens,... Read more
1. Introduction
2. Preliminaries
3. First-Order Epistemic Theory
4. Epistemic Correctness and the Minimal Functional Criterion
5. First-Order Epistemic Instrumentalism
6. The Functionalist Challenge
7. Second-Order Epistemic Theory
8. Second-Order Epistemic Instrumentalism
9. The Content Constraint
10. Bespoke Explanations
11. New View Old Problems
12. Going Further
Biography
Nathaniel P. Sharadin is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at The University of Hong Kong. He is the author of numerous articles on epistemology and ethics.
