Working Without a Net : A Study of Egocentric Epistemology - Richard Foley

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Working Without a Net

A Study of Egocentric Epistemology

By: Richard Foley

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Hardcover | 1 February 2000

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In this book, Richard Foley defends an epistemology that takes seriously the perspectives of individual thinkers. He argues that having rational opinions is a matter of meeting our own internal standards rather than standards that are somehow imposed upon us from the outside. It is a matter of making ourselves invulnerable to intellectual self-criticism. Foley also shows how the theory of rational belief is part of a general theory of rationality. He thus avoids treating the rationality of belief as a fundamentally different kind of phenomenon from the rationality of decision or action. His approach generates promising suggestions about a wide range of issues, e.g., the distinction between epistemic and non-epistemic reasons for belief; the question of what aspects of the Cartesian project are still worth doing; the significance of simplicity and other theoretical virtues; the relevance of skeptical hypotheses; the difference between a theory of rational belief and a theory of knowledge; the difference between a theory of rational belief and a theory of rational degrees of belief; and the limits of idealization in epistemology. The book runs counter to a tendency in contemporary epistemology to discount the perspectives of individual thinkers. Endorsing a radically subjective conception of rational belief, Working Without A Net will interest students of philosophy, epistemology, and rationality.

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"Highly recommended for any library supporting work on rationality or the theory of knowledge."--Choice "[This book] will stimulate alot of discussion."--The Times Literary Supplement "An important contribution to a wide range of fundamental issues in epistemology. It is certain to have the same kind of significant impact made by his earlier book The Theory of Rationality and must be read by any philosopher who takes epistemological questions seriously....Foley has that rare philosophical trait of doggedly pursuing the truth wherever it leads, without ideological baggage and with no interest in dialectically clever maneuvers that avoid the heart of philosophical controversies. If you are interested in a clear, careful, unpretentious, but sophisticated approach to the study of epistemology, you must not overlook this book."--The Philosophical Review

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Rational Belief	p. 3
Rationality as a Goal-oriented Notion	p. 3
Reasons and Perspectives	p. 8
Reasons, Beliefs, and Goals	p. 15
Evidence, Belief, and Commitment	p. 22
Evidence and Reasons for Belief	p. 27
An Evaluation Procedure for Epistemology	p. 30
Further Illustrations of the Procedure	p. 37
Skepticism	p. 54
Rationality and Skeptical Hypotheses	p. 54
The Lack of Guarantees	p. 59
Is Skepticism Self-referentially Incoherent?	p. 62
Can Metaphysics Solve the Problem of Skepticism?	p. 67
The Epistemological Circle	p. 75
Rationality and Knowledge	p. 85
Egocentric Rationality	p. 94
The Subject Matter of Egocentric Epistemology	p. 94
Responsible Belief	p. 102
What Am I to Believe?	p. 117
Why Be Egocentrically Rational?	p. 131
The Epistemology of Beliefs and the Epistemology of Degrees of Belief	p. 140
The Lockean Thesis	p. 140
Two Paradoxes for the Lockean Thesis	p. 141
Degrees of Belief	p. 146
Inconsistency, Incoherency, and Dutch Books	p. 155
Being Knowingly Inconsistent	p. 162
Being Knowingly Incoherent	p. 174
Pessimistic Scenarios	p. 184
Evidence	p. 189
Belief as Epistemic Commitment	p. 197
Index	p. 211
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A Study of Egocentric Epistemology

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