Inferentialism, Rationality, and Value-driven Epistemology

Jesús Zamora-Bonilla

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Inferentialism, Rationality, and Value-driven Epistemology

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Pages:: 163–180

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004359475_009

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In this paper, I criticize one of the core assumptions of “value-driven epistemology”: that a cognitive state of knowing is more valuable than the state of having just a true belief. This assumption is criticised in Section 2 mainly on the basis of a traditional view of rationality (rational choice theory), and reliabilism is defended against the argument that it fails to solve the so called “value problem”. As an alternative to the conception of cognitive states prevalent within value-driven epistemology, I defend in Section 3 an inferentialist view of the embeddedness of psychological states in a web of normative statuses, and show how this can lead to a vision of knowledge that lacks the problems identified in the first part of the paper.

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Rationality and Decision Making

From Normative Rules to Heuristics

Series: Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, Volume: 111 and Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities Online, Volume: 111

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004359475

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 29 Jan 2018

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- Philosophy
  - Epistemology & Metaphysics
  - Philosophy of Mind
- Social Sciences
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