Epistemic Defeat (eBook)

A Treatment of Defeat as an Independent Phenomenon

Jan Constantin (Autor)

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2021 | 1. Auflage
297 Seiten
Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co.KG (Verlag)
978-3-11-073054-8 (ISBN)

Infos

A number of well-developed theories shed light on the question, under what circumstances our beliefs enjoy epistemic justification. Yet, comparatively little is known about epistemic defeat-when new information causes the loss of epistemic justification. This book proposes and defends a detailed account of epistemic defeaters. The main kinds of defeaters are analyzed in detail and integrated into a general framework that aims to explain how beliefs lose justification. It is argued that defeaters introduce incompatibilities into a noetic system and thereby prompt a structured re-evaluation process that makes a justified reinstatement of the defeated belief impossible. The account is then applied to the topic of disagreement, where it is used in an argument for conciliationism, as well as a new explanation for higher-order defeat. Throughout the book, the notion of defeat is the center of attention, while a number of new issues are discussed at the intersections of defeat and justification. Specifically, new problems are raised for broadly internalist accounts of defeat, a fully descriptive reliabilist account of defeat is provided, and the case for normative defeat is revisited.

Jan Constantin, University of Cologne, Cologne.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.6.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• ISBN-10: 3-11-073054-5 / 3110730545
• ISBN-13: 978-3-11-073054-8 / 9783110730548