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Uniform TitleAn epistemic value theory
NameWhitcomb, Dennis (author), Goldman, Alvin (chair), Sosa, Ernest (internal member), Klein, Peter (internal member), Fallis, Don (outside member), Harman, Gilbert (outside member), Rutgers University, Graduate School - New Brunswick,
Degree Date2007
Date Created2007
SubjectPhilosophy,
Epistemics,
Knowledge, Theory of
DescriptionFor any normative domain, we can theorize about what is good in that domain. Such theories include utilitarianism, a view about what is good morally. But there are many domains other than the moral; these include the prudential, the aesthetic, and the intellectual or epistemic. In this last domain, it is (for instance) good to be knowledgeable and bad to ignore evidence, quite apart from the morality, prudence, and aesthetics of these things. This dissertation builds a theory that stands to the epistemic domain as utilitarianism stands to the moral domain. It builds an epistemic value theory.
NotePh.D.
NoteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 247-251).
Genretheses
Persistent URLhttp://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.2/rucore10001600001.ETD.16794
LanguageEnglish
CollectionGraduate School - New Brunswick Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work.
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