A luxury of the understanding : on the value of true belief / Allan Hazlett.

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Hazlett, Allan

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TextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013Description: 1 online resource (xi, 302 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780191662461
0191662461
9780191761164
0191761168

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Luxury of the understandingDDC classification:

121.6 23

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BD215 .H39 2013eb

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Contents:

1. Two Ancient Ideas -- pt. I The Eudaimonic Value of True Belief -- 2. Greatness of Mind -- 3. Partiality and Charity -- 4. True Belief as a Non-Ideal Good -- pt. II The Epistemic Value of True Belief -- 5. The Problem of the Source of Epistemic Normativity -- 6. Humean Approaches -- 7. Darwinian Approaches -- 8. Kantian Approaches -- 9. Anti-Realism about Epistemic Normativity.

Summary: Allan Hazlett challenges the philosophical assumption of the value of true belief. He critiques the view that true belief is better for us than false belief, and the view that truth is 'the aim of belief'. An alternative picture is provided, on which the fact that some people love truth is all there is to 'the value of true belief'.

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Allan Hazlett challenges the philosophical assumption of the value of true belief. He critiques the view that true belief is better for us than false belief, and the view that truth is 'the aim of belief'. An alternative picture is provided, on which the fact that some people love truth is all there is to 'the value of true belief'.

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