Schroeder presents an ambitious, important innovation in epistemology, an innovation he describes as "the core hypothesis."

Autorentext
Mark Schroeder is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. His research ranges widely in ethics, epistemology, and related areas, and his work has appeared in over two dozen journals. He is the author of Slaves of the Passions (OUP, 2007), Being For: Evaluating the Semantic Program of Expressivism (OUP, 2008), Noncognitivism in Ethics (Routledge, 2010), Explaining the Reasons We Share (OUP, 2014), and Expressing Our Attitudes (OUP, 2015).

Klappentext

Reasons First explores the hypothesis that reasons have a basic explanatory role in ethics and epistemology. While widely accepted concerning moral worth, Schroeder argues that this idea also illuminates some long-standing puzzles to do with knowledge.

Inhalt

• Preface

• Part 1: The Issues

• 1: Introduction

• 2: Reasons are Competitors

• Part 2: Rationality and Truth

• 3: Basic Perceptual Reasons

• 4: Subjective Reasons and Truth

• 5: The Apparent Factive Attitude View

• Part 3: How Evidence Rationalizes Belief

• 6: Balance in Epistemology

• 7: Epistemic Reasons as Right-Kind Reasons

• 8: Pragmatic Intellectualism

• 9: Doxastic Wrongs