Norms, Naturalism and Epistemology
Subtitle: The Case for Science without Norms
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: January 17, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781403902870
Subjects: Epistemology, theory of knowledge; Naturalism; Philosophy; Epistemology; History & Surveys - General; Philosophy / Epistemology; Philosophy / History, Criticism, Surveys; Philosophy-Epistemology; Knowledge, Theory of; Norm (Philosophy)
First sentence: My overarching thesis - as I will henceforth refer to it - is that, to the extent we can make sense of naturalistic epistemic norms, there is no need for such norms in the process of rational belief-formation.