1st Edition

The Dispositional Architecture of Epistemic Reasons

By Hamid Vahid Copyright 2021
242 Pages
by Routledge

242 Pages
by Routledge

242 Pages
by Routledge

This book is concerned with the conditions under which epistemic reasons provide justification for beliefs. The author draws on metaethical theories of reasons and normativity and then applies his theory to various contemporary debates in epistemology. In the first part of the book, the author outlines what he calls the dispositional architecture of epistemic reasons. The author offers and... Read more

Introduction

Part I: Dispositional Architecture of Epistemic Reasons

1. Possessing Reasons: A Dispositional Framework

2. A Dispositional Analysis of Propositional and Doxastic Justification

3. Dispositions and the Problem of the Basing Relation

Part II: Perceptual Reasons

4. The Epistemic Value of Perceptual Experience

5. Epistemic Conservatism and Perceptual Justification

6. Dogmatism: The Dispositional Structure of Perceptual Reasons

Part III: Consequences

7. Higher-order Evidence and the Dispositional Structure of Epistemic Defeat

8. The Nature of Inference

9. The Epistemic Value of Emotions

10. Motivational Internalism and Motivating Reasons

11. Self-knowledge: The Epistemic Significance of the Transparency Procedure

Biography

Hamid Vahid is Professor of Philosophy at the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences, Iran. He is the author of Epistemic Justification and the Skeptical Challenge (2005) and The Epistemology of Belief (2009).