A Luxury of the Understanding: On the Value of True Belief

Allan Hazlett

A Luxury of the Understanding: On the Value of True Belief

Allan Hazlett

School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

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This is a critical study of the value of true belief: I argue that true belief is at most sometimes eudaimonically valuable (i.e. valuable vis-à-vis the wellbeing of the believer), and criticize realist accounts of the "epistemic" value of true belief that appeal to the thesis that belief "aims at truth."

Original language	English
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Number of pages	320
ISBN (Print)	978-0-19-967480-0
Publication status	Published - 3 Oct 2013

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Knowledge, Coherence, and the good Life: Ethical and Epistemological Goods
Hazlett, A. (Principal Investigator)
British Academy & Learned & Prof Socs
31/07/11 → …
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