{"title":"Nathaniel Sharadin","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"epistemic-instrumentalism-explained-book-nathaniel-sharadin-9780367558802","title":"Epistemic Instrumentalism Explained","description":"This book argues for rejecting epistemic instrumentalism as a first-order view not because it suffers extensional failures, but because it suffers explanatory ones. By contrast, it argues that epistemic instrumentalism offers a natural, straightforward explanation of why being epistemically correct matters.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51250495619345,"sku":"NIN9780367558802","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52451172417809,"sku":"NLS9780367558802","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0367558807.jpg?v=1785780335"},{"product_id":"epistemic-instrumentalism-explained-book-nathaniel-sharadin-9780367561833","title":"Epistemic Instrumentalism Explained","description":"\u003cp\u003eDo epistemic requirements vary along with facts about what promotes agents' well-being? Epistemic instrumentalists say 'yes', and thereby earn a lot of contempt. This contempt is a mistake on two counts. First, it is incorrectly based: the reasons typically given for it are misguided. Second, it fails to distinguish between \u003ci\u003efirst- \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003esecond\u003c\/i\u003e-order epistemic instrumentalism; and, it happens, only the former is contemptible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this book, Nathaniel P. Sharadin argues for rejecting epistemic instrumentalism as a first-order view not because it suffers extensional failures, but because it suffers explanatory ones. By contrast, he argues that epistemic instrumentalism offers a natural, straightforward explanation of why being epistemically correct matters. What emerges is a second-order instrumentalist explanation for epistemic authority that is neutral between competing first-order epistemic theories. This neutrality is an advantage. But, drawing on work from cognitive science and psychology, Sharadin argues that instrumentalists can abandon that neutrality in order to adopt a view he calls epistemic ecologism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEpistemic Instrumentalism Explained\u003c\/em\u003e will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working in epistemology, ethics, and philosophy of mind.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52521344893201,"sku":"NLS9780367561833","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780367561833.jpg?v=1785940791"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-nathaniel-sharadin.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}