The Structure of Justification by Robert Audi

The Structure of Justification by Robert Audi

This collection of papers by one of the foremost philosophers in epistemology transcends two of the most widely misunderstood positions in philosophy - foundationalism and coherentism. Audi proposes a distinctively moderate, internalist foundationalism that incorporates some of the virtues of both coherentism and reliabilism. He develops important distinctions between positive and negative epistemic dependence, substantively and conceptually naturalistic theories, dispositional beliefs and dispositions to believe, episodically and structurally inferential beliefs, first and second order internalism, and rebutting as opposed to refuting scepticism. These contrasts are applied not only to rational belief, but to rational action and the rationality of desires and intentions. The overall position is a pluralist, moderately rationalistic, internalist theory of justification and a partly externalist conception of knowledge. However, by virtue of offering a theory of rationality as well as an account of knowledge and justified belief, it will interest philosophers of ethics, science, and the social sciences and teachers and students of epistemology.

"His grasp of modern (analytical) American epistemology is striking... This new book is a notable one by a noted philosopher." Canadian Philosophical Reviews

Audi, Robert: - Robert Audi is John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of numerous books and articles. His recent books include Moral Perception (2013), Democratic Authority and the Separation of Church and State (2011), Rationality and Religious Commitment (2011), Epistemology: A Contemporary Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge (2010) and Moral Value and Human Diversity (2007). Audi is a past president of the American Philosophical Association, a former editor of the Journal of Philosophical Research, and a former director of the National Endowment for the Humanities' Summer Seminars and Institutes Programs.

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ISBN 13	9780521446129
ISBN 10	0521446120
Title	The Structure of Justification
Author	Robert Audi
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	1993-10-29
Number of pages	496
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