Mueller Beings of Thought and Action

Epistemic and Practical Rationality
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-108-99920-5
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

In this book, Andy Mueller examines the ways in which epistemic and practical rationality are intertwined. In the first part, he presents an overview of the contemporary debates about epistemic norms for practical reasoning, and defends the thesis that epistemic rationality can make one practically irrational. Mueller proposes a contextualist account of epistemic norms for practical reasoning and introduces novel epistemic norms pertaining to ends and hope. In the second part Mueller considers current approaches to pragmatic encroachment in epistemology, ultimately arguing in favor of a new principle-based argument for pragmatic encroachment. While the book defends tenets of the knowledge-first programme, one of its main conclusions is thoroughly pragmatist: in an important sense, the practical has primacy over the epistemic.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mueller, Andy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue; Part I. Beings of Thought in Action: 1. Epistemic encroachment on practical rationality; 2. Practical reasoning, ends, and the end of hope; 3. Contexts, costs, and benefits; 4. Knowledge and seemingly risky actions; Part II. Beings of Action in Thought: 5. Pragmatic encroachment in epistemology; 6. Reasons for belief and the primacy of the practical; 7. Assessing potential explanations of pragmatic encroachment; 8. Social beings; Epilogue.

Über Autor(innen)

Mueller, Andy
Andy Mueller is a post-doctoral fellow at Goethe University Frankfurt. He works on epistemology and practical reasoning and has published articles in journals including Analysis, Analytic Philosophy, Episteme, and Synthese.