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This book contains twelve chapters by leading and up-and-coming philosophers on metaepistemology, that is, on the nature, existence and authority of epistemic facts. One of the central divides in metaepistemology is between epistemic realists and epistemic anti-realists. Epistemic realists think that epistemic facts (such as the fact that you ought to believe what your evidence supports) exist independently of human judgements and practices, and that they have authority over our judgements and practices. Epistemic anti-realists think that, if epistemic facts exist at all, they are grounded in human judgements and practices, and gain any authority they have from our judgements and practices. This book considers both epistemic realist and anti-realist perspectives, as well as perspectives that “transcend” the realism/anti-realism dichotomy. As such, it constitutes the “state of the art” with regard to metaepistemology, and will shape the debate in years to come.

Knowledge, Theory of. --- Epistemology --- Theory of knowledge --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Genetic epistemology. --- Ontology. --- Epistemology. --- Being --- Metaphysics --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Substance (Philosophy) --- Developmental psychology --- Knowledge, Theory of

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What are epistemic reasons? What are epistemic norms? What is our basic epistemic goal? In recent years, questions about epistemic reasons, norms, and goals have seen an upsurge of interest. Pursuing these questions has not only proven fertile for our understanding of key concepts and phenomena studied in epistemology, but also for a wide area of issues in philosophy of mind and action and in philosophy of language and meta-ethics. The present volume brings together eighteen essays, seventeen of them new, by established and upcoming philosophers in the field. The contributions are arranged into four sections: (1) epistemic reasons, (2) different aspects of epistemic norms, (3) epistemic consequentialism, and (4) epistemic goals and values. The volume is key reading for researchers and students of philosophy interested in epistemic normativity and beyond.

Epistemics. --- Knowledge, Theory of. --- Normativity (Ethics) --- Ethical norms --- Normativeness (Ethics) --- Ethics --- Epistemology --- Theory of knowledge --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- General semantics --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Epistemology. --- philosophy of action. --- philosophy of language. --- philosophy of mind.