Right Belief and True Belief
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 7 November 2023
- ISBN 9780197660386
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 163x226x35 mm
- Weight 522 g
- Language English 552
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Short description:
The most important questions in life are questions about what we should do and what we should believe. The first of these questions has received considerable attention by normative ethicists, who search for a complete systematic account of right action. This book is about the second question: what should we believe? Right Belief and True Belief starts by defining a new field of inquiry author Daniel J. Singer calls 'normative epistemology', that mirrors normative ethics by searching for a systematic account of right belief--belief that is closest to the truth.
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The most important questions in life are questions about what we should do and what we should believe. The first kind of question has received considerable attention by normative ethicists, who search for a complete systematic account of right action. This book is about the second kind of question.
Right Belief and True Belief starts by defining a new field of inquiry named 'normative epistemology' that mirrors normative ethics in searching for a systematic account of right belief. The book then lays out and defends a deeply truth-centric account of right belief called `truth-loving epistemic consequentialism.' Truth-loving epistemic consequentialists say that what we should believe (and what credences we should have) can be understood in terms of what conduces to us having the most accurate beliefs (credences). The view straight-forwardly vindicates the popular intuition that epistemic norms are about getting true beliefs and avoiding false beliefs, and it coheres well with how scientists, engineers, and statisticians think about what we should believe. Many epistemologists have rejected similar views in response to several persuasive objections, most famously including trade-off and counting-blades-of-grass objections. Right Belief and True Belief shows how a simple truth-based consequentialist account of epistemic norms can avoid these objections and argues that truth-loving epistemic consequentialism can undergird a general truth-centric approach to many questions in epistemology.
Singer's Right Belief and True Belief explores the normative epistemological theory Singer calls truth-loving epistemic consequentialism, the view that one's beliefs ought to result in one's having more true beliefs than false beliefs...Recommended. Researchers and faculty.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: Normative Epistemology
Chapter 2: Truth-Loving Epistemic Consequentialism and Trade-offs
Chapter 3: On Specific Trade-off Objections
Chapter 4: On Veritism and Promoting the Epistemic Good
Chapter 5: Consequentialism and Epistemic Utility Theory
Chapter 6: On Racist Beliefs and Moral Encroachment
Chapter 7: Consequentialist Epistemology
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