Reasons, Justification, and Defeat

Traditionally, the notion of defeat has been central to epistemology, practical reasoning, and ethics. Within epistemology, it is standardly assumed that a subject who knows that p, or justifiably believes that p, can lose this knowledge or justified belief by acquiring a so-called 'defeater', whether that is evidence that not-p, evidence that the process that produced her belief is unreliable, or evidence that she has likely misevaluated her own...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198847203
• ISBN13: 9780198847205
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.3"