Epistemic Autonomy

Author : Jonathan Matheson,Kirk Lougheed
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000423013

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Epistemic Autonomy by Jonathan Matheson,Kirk Lougheed Pdf

This is the first book dedicated to the topic of epistemic autonomy. It features original essays from leading scholars that promise to significantly shape future debates in this emerging area of epistemology. While the nature of and value of autonomy has long been discussed in ethics and social and political philosophy, it remains an underexplored area of epistemology. The essays in this collection take up several interesting questions and approaches related to epistemic autonomy. Topics include the nature of epistemic autonomy, whether epistemic paternalism can be justified, autonomy as an epistemic value and/or vice, and the relation of epistemic autonomy to social epistemology and epistemic injustice. Epistemic Autonomy will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working in epistemology, ethics, and social and political philosophy.

Author : Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190278267

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Epistemic Authority by Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski Pdf

Gives an extended argument for epistemic authority from the implications of reflective self-consciousness. Epistemic authority is compatible with autonomy, but epistemic self-reliance is incoherent. The book argues that epistemic and emotional self-trust are rational and inescapable, that consistent self-trust commits us to trust in others, and that among those we are committed to trusting are some whom we ought to treat as epistemic authorities, modelled on the well-known principles of authority of Joseph Raz. Some of these authorities can be in the moral and religious domains. The book investigates the way the problem of disagreement between communities or between the self and others is a conflict within self-trust, and argue against communal self-reliance on the same grounds as the book uses in arguing against individual self-reliance. The book explains how any change in belief is justified--by the conscientious judgment that the change will survive future conscientious self-reflection. The book concludes with an account of autonomy. -- Información de la editorial.

Author : Casey Rebecca Johnson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000834901

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Epistemic Care by Casey Rebecca Johnson Pdf

This book uses the framework of care ethics to articulate a novel theory of our epistemic obligations to one another. It presents an original way to understand our epistemic vulnerabilities, our obligations in education, and our care duties toward others with whom we stand in epistemically vulnerable relationships. As embodied and socially interdependent knowers, we have obligations to one another that are generated by our ability to care – that is, to meet each other’s epistemic vulnerabilities. The author begins the book by arguing that the same motivations that moved social epistemologists away from individualistic epistemology should motivate a move to a care-based theory. The following chapters outline our epistemic care duties to vulnerable agents, and offer criteria of epistemic goodness for communities of inquiry. Finally, the author discusses the tension between epistemic care and epistemic paternalism. Epistemic Care will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in social epistemology, ethics, feminist philosophy, and philosophy of education.

Author : Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij
Publisher : Springer
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137313171

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Epistemic Paternalism by Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij Pdf

Any attempt to help us reason in more accurate ways faces a problem: While we acknowledge that others stand to benefit from intellectual advice, each and every one of us tends to consider ourselves an exception, on account of overconfidence. The solution? Accept a form of epistemic paternalism.

Author : Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780197529171

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Epistemic Values by Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski Pdf

"This book collects 20 papers in epistemology by Linda Zagzebski, covering her entire career of more than 25 years. She is one of the founders of contemporary epistemology and is well-known for broadening the field and re-focusing it on epistemic virtue and epistemic value. The subject areas of most of epistemology are included in these papers: (1) knowledge and understanding, (2) intellectual virtue, (3) epistemic value, (4) virtue in religious epistemology, (5) intellectual autonomy and authority, and (6) skepticism and the Gettier problem"--

Author : Hana Samaržija,Quassim Cassam
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000861693

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The Epistemology of Democracy by Hana Samaržija,Quassim Cassam Pdf

This is the first edited scholarly collection devoted solely to the epistemology of democracy. Its fifteen chapters, published here for the first time and written by an international team of leading researchers, will interest scholars and advanced students working in democratic theory, the harrowing crisis of democracy, political philosophy, social epistemology, and political epistemology. The volume is structured into three parts, each offering five chapters. The first part, Democratic Pessimism, covers the crisis of democracy, the rise of authoritarianism, public epistemic vices, misinformation and disinformation, civic ignorance, and the lacking quantitative case for democratic decision-making. The second part, Democratic Optimism, discusses the role of hope and positive emotions in rebuilding democracy, proposes solutions to myside bias, and criticizes dominant epistocratic approaches to forming political administrations. The third and final part, Democratic Realism, assesses whether we genuinely require emotional empathy to understand the perspectives of our political adversaries, discusses the democratic tension between mutual respect for others and a quest for social justice, and evaluates manifold top-down and bottom-up approaches to policy making.

Author : Shaun Gallagher,Riccardo Viale,Vittorio Gallese
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832533437

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Embodied bounded rationality by Shaun Gallagher,Riccardo Viale,Vittorio Gallese Pdf

Author : J. Adam Carter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192662408

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Autonomous Knowledge by J. Adam Carter Pdf

A central conclusion developed and defended throughout the book is that epistemic autonomy is necessary for knowledge (both knowledge-that and knowledge-how) and in ways that epistemologists have not yet fully appreciated. The book is divided into five chapters. Chapter 1 motivates (using a series of twists on Lehrer's TrueTemp case) the claim that propositional knowledge requires autonomous belief. Chapters 2 and 3 flesh out this proposal in two ways, by defending a specific form of history-sensitive externalism with respect to propositional knowledge-apt autonomous belief (Chapter 2) and by showing how the idea that knowledge requires autonomous belief—understood along the externalist lines proposed—corresponds with an entirely new class of knowledge defeaters (Chapter 3). Chapter 4 extends the proposal to (both intellectualist and anti-intellectualist) knowledge-how and performance enhancement, and in a way that combines insights from virtue epistemology with research on freedom, responsibility, and manipulation. Chapter 5 concludes with a new twist on the Value of Knowledge debate, by vindicating the value of epistemically autonomous knowledge over that which falls short, including (mere) heteronomous but otherwise epistemically impeccable justified true belief.

Author : Guy Axtell,Amiel Bernal
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786615749

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Epistemic Paternalism by Guy Axtell,Amiel Bernal Pdf

This volume considers forms of information manipulation and restriction in contemporary society. It explores whether and when manipulation of the conditions of inquiry without the consent of those manipulated is morally or epistemically justified. The contributors provide a wealth of examples of manipulation, and debate whether epistemic paternalism is distinct from other forms of paternalism debated in political theory. Special attention is given to medical practice, for science communication, and for research in science, technology, and society. Some of the contributors argue that unconsenting interference with people’s ability of inquire is consistent with, and others that it is inconsistent with, efforts to democratize knowledge and decision-making. These differences invite theoretical reflection regarding which goods are fundamental, whether there is a clear or only a moving boundary between informing and instructing, and whether manipulation of people’s epistemic conditions amounts to a type of intellectual injustice. The collection pays special attention to contemporary paternalistic practices in big data and scientific research, as the way in which the flow of information or knowledge might be curtailed by the manipulations of a small body of experts or algorithms.

Author : Richard Dien Winfield
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351782555

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Autonomy and Normativity by Richard Dien Winfield Pdf

This title was first published in 2001. Autonomy and Normativity explores central topics in current philosophical debate, challenging the prevailing post-modern dogma that theory, practice and art are captive to contingent historical foundations by showing how foundational dilemmas are overcome once validity is recognized to reside in self-determination. Through constructive arguments covering the principal topics and controversies in epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics, Autonomy and Normativity demonstrates how truth, right and beauty can retain universal validity without succumbing to the mistaken Enlightenment strategy of seeking foundations for rational autonomy. Presenting a compact, yet comprehensive statement of a powerful and provocative alternative to the reigning orthodoxies of current philosophical debate, Richard Winfield employs Hegelian techniques and focus to object to opponents, and presents a radical and systematic critique of the work of mainstream thinkers including Kant, Rawls, Husserl, Habermas and others. The ramifications for the legitimation of modernity are thoroughly explored, in conjunction with an analysis of the fate of theory, practice and art in the modern world. This book offers an invaluable resource for students of both analytic and continental philosophical traditions, and related areas of law, social theory and aesthetics.

Author : Jonathan Pugh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198858584

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Autonomy, Rationality, and Contemporary Bioethics by Jonathan Pugh Pdf

Personal autonomy is often lauded as a key value in contemporary Western bioethics, and the claim that there is an important relationship between autonomy and rationality is often treated as an uncontroversial claim in this sphere. Yet, there is also considerable disagreement about how we should cash out the relationship between rationality and autonomy. In particular, it is unclear whether a rationalist view of autonomy can be compatible with legal judgments that enshrine a patient's right to refuse medical treatment, regardless of whether ". . . the reasons for making the choice are rational, irrational, unknown or even non-existent". In this book, I bring recent philosophical work on the nature of rationality to bear on the question of how we should understand autonomy in contemporary bioethics. In doing so, I develop a new framework for thinking about the concept, one that is grounded in an understanding of the different roles that rational beliefs and rational desires have to play in personal autonomy. Furthermore, the account outlined here allows for a deeper understanding of different form of controlling influence, and the relationship between our freedom to act, and our capacity to decide autonomously. I contrast my rationalist with other prominent accounts of autonomy in bioethics, and outline the revisionary implications it has for various practical questions in bioethics in which autonomy is a salient concern, including questions about the nature of informed consent and decision-making capacity.

Author : Marcelo de Araujo
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110910957

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Scepticism, Freedom and Autonomy by Marcelo de Araujo Pdf

How much does what we think depend on what we want? Descartes' much-discussed position has often been interpreted to mean that we hold an opinion as the result of a decision. In Scepticism, Freedom and Autonomy, Araujo argues against this interpretation, asserting that we retain control over our opinions only through selective attention. Even for this limited control, however, Cartesian Scepticism implies the possibility of self-delusion, symbolized in the writings of Descartes by the figure of the evil god. Hence, the existence of an evil god would not only cast doubt on our claims to knowledge but also jeopardize our freedom. In this new interpretation, the Cartesian Scepticism, which is usually ascribed only epistemic significance, proves relevant for a fundamental moral question, that of human autonomy in general.

Author : James E. Tomberlin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028816085

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Epistemology, 1999 by James E. Tomberlin Pdf

Author : Aurelia Armstrong
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Autonomy (Philosophy)
ISBN : 9781474419703

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Spinoza and Relational Autonomy by Aurelia Armstrong Pdf

This collection of 13 new essays shows what Baruch Spinoza can add to our understanding of the relational nature of autonomy. By offering a relational understanding of the nature of individuals centred on the role played by emotions, Spinoza offers not only historical roots for contemporary debates but also broadens the current discussion. At the same time, reading Spinoza as a theorist of relational autonomy underscores the consistency of his overall metaphysical, ethical and political project, which has been clouded by the standard rationalist interpretation of his works.

Author : James E. Tomberlin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
ISBN : UCSC:32106018774528

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Epistemology, 1989 by James E. Tomberlin Pdf