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Reasons for belief / edited By Andrew Reisner and Asbjorn Steglich-Petersen. - New York : Cambridge university press, 2015. - ix, 273 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

How to be a teleologist about epistemic reasons / Asbjørn Steglich-Petersen
Is there reason to be theoretically rational? / Andrew Reisner
Epistemic motivation: towards a metaethics of belief / Veli Mitova
Error theory and reasons for belief / Jonas Olson
Can reasons for belief be debunked? / Nishi Shah
Reasons and belief's justification / Clayton Littlejohn
Perception, generality, and reasons / Hannah Ginsborg
Immediate warrant, epistemic responsibility, and Moorean dogmatism / Adam Leite
Primitively rational belief-forming processes / Ralph Wedgwood
What does it take to "have" a reason? / Mark Schroeder
Knowledge and reasons for belief / Alan Millar
What is the swamping problem? / Duncan Pritchard

This collection of essays tackles fundamental questions regarding the reasons for belief and uses new research to examine traditional epistemological issues such as knowledge, justification, and beliefs acquired through perception. It will appeal to philosophers engaged in epistemology, theoretical reason, rationality, perception, and ethics.

ISBN: 9781107540484

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Belief and doubt.

Dewey Class. No.: 121.6 / REI