Beings of Thought and Action (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781108834377)

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.

Author: Andy Mueller
ISBN-10: 110883437X
ISBN-13: 9781108834377
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/08/2021
Pages: 260
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d