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Author:   Lorraine Code
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781438480527

ISBN 10:   1438480520
Pages:   306
Publication Date:   01 November 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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"Preface to the Second Edition Preface 1. Introduction: Epistemic Responsibility Part I: Intellectual Virtue 2. Father and Son: A Case Study Introduction: The Gosse Case Foundations, Coherence, and Narrative Some Interim Conclusions 3. Toward a ""Responsibilist"" Epistemology ""The Raft and the Pyramid"" Epistemological Precedents Responsibilism Recommendations 4. The Ethics of Belief The Ethical and the Epistemic The Ethics of Belief Belief and Choice Implications Part II: Cognitive Activity 5. The Knowing Subject Theoretical Basis Kant cum Piaget: Steps Toward the Personal Knowers As Persons Epistemology and Human Nature Consequences 6. Realism and Understanding Realism, Truth, and Intellectual Virtue Normative Realism Subjectivism and Dogmatism Understanding The Lebenswelt: Cognitive Practice 7. Epistemic Community Community and Commonability Cognitive Interdependence and Trust Contracts, Forms of Life, and Practices Epistemological Altruism Consequences Part III: Epistemic Life 8. Literature, Truth, and Understanding Fiction as a Source of Understanding Responsibility for Truth The Case of Styron: The Factual and the Fictional Implications 9. Cognitive Practice The Division of Intellectual Labor Polanyi and/or Foucault Education, Authority, and the Epistemic Community 10. Conclusion Bibliography Index"

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Lorraine Code is Distinguished Research Professor Emerita of Philosophy at York University, Canada. She is the author of several books, including Manufactured Uncertainty: Implications for Climate Change Skepticism, also published by SUNY Press, and Ecological Thinking: The Politics of Epistemic Location.

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