Author : Christoph Kelp
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009190687
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis The Nature and Normativity of Defeat by : Christoph Kelp
Download or read book The Nature and Normativity of Defeat written by Christoph Kelp and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-04 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defeat is the loss of justification for believing something in light of new information. This Element mainly aims to work towards developing a novel account of defeat. It distinguishes among three broad views in the epistemology of defeat: scepticism, internalism, and externalism and argues that that sceptical and internalist accounts of defeat are bound to remain unsatisfactory. As a result, any viable account of defeat must be externalist. While there is no shortage of externalist accounts, the Element provides reason to think that extant accounts remain unsatisfactory. The Element also explains the constructive tasks of developing an alternative account of defeat and showing that it improves on the competition.