Being Rational and Being Right - Rilegato

Comesaņa, Juan

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ISBN 10: 0198847718 ISBN 13: 9780198847717

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2020

Riassunto

In Being Rational and Being Right, Juan Comesaņa argues for a cluster of theses related to the rationality of action and belief. His starting point is that rational action requires rational belief but tolerates false belief. From there, Comesaņa provides a novel account of empirical evidence according to which said evidence consists of the content of undefeated experiences. This view, which Comesaņa calls "Experientialism," differs from the two main views of empirical evidence on offer nowadays: Factualism, according to which our evidence is what we know, and Psychologism, according to which our experiences themselves are evidence. He reasons that Experientialism fares better than these rival views in explaining different features of rational belief and action. Comesaņa embeds this discussion in a Bayesian framework, and discusses in addition the problem of normative requirements, the easy knowledge problem, and how Experientialism compares to Evidentialism, Reliabilism, and Comesaņa's own (now superseded) Evidentialist Reliabilism.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Juan Comesaņa is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona. Prior to this, he obtained his PhD from Brown University and then taught at the University of Wisconsin, Madison for six years. He works mainly in epistemology, though he is also interested in metaphysics and metaethics.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 2020
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0198847718
• ISBN 13: 9780198847717
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 240
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