Markus Patrick Hess

Is Truth the Primary Epistemic Goal?

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This book is focused on a problem that has aroused the most controversy in recent epistemological debate, which is whether the truth can or cannot be the fundamental epistemic goal. Traditional epistemology has presupposed the centrality of truth without giving a deeper analysis. To epistemic value pluralists, the claim that truth is the fundamental value seems unjustified. Their central judgement is that we can be in a situation where we do not attain truth but something else that is also epistemically valuable. In contrast, epistemic value monists are committed to the view that one can only attain something of epistemic value by attaining… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-3-11-032955-1
EAN: 9783110329551
Produktnummer: 14856967
Verlag: De Gruyter
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 165 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 0 KB