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Raut, Tanuj Milind,

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Epistemology Under the Weight of History /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Epistemology Under the Weight of History // Tanuj Milind Raut.
Author:	Raut, Tanuj Milind,
Description:	1 electronic resource (141 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-11, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International86-11A.
Subject:	Epistemology. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=31838760
ISBN:	9798314857991

Epistemology Under the Weight of History /
Raut, Tanuj Milind,

Epistemology Under the Weight of History /Tanuj Milind Raut. - 1 electronic resource (141 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-11, Section: A.

Our epistemic lives are shaped under the weight of history. From beliefs about God, judgments about what makes societies just, aesthetic judgments about art, and philosophical commitments; all are acquired as a result of historical influences. The same could be said about our concepts like 'knowledge', 'freedom', and 'woman'. In this project, I offer a novel account of the epistemic significance of challenges to one's beliefs and concepts on the basis of their causal history. In chapter 1, I offer a new and systematic way of classifying these explanations. I differentiate between them based on the object of the relevant historical explanation, the explanans, and the normative goods associated with beliefs and concepts. In chapter 2, I offer a novel account of the epistemic significance of etiological challenges to one's beliefs. Ordinarily, we form beliefs by exercising our cognitive abilities. However, the etiological challenge shows that the belief is not exhaustively causally explained by the manifestation of one's cognitive abilities, and so the challenge constitutes imposing a particularly strong version of the ability condition on knowledge. I argue that such a condition is implausible and so we need not give up our beliefs in response to etiological challenges. In chapter 3, I critique alternative proposals about the epistemic significance of etiological challenges and show both that the relevant views are extensionally inadequate and that my view fares better in accounting for the variety of etiological challenges to beliefs. In chapter 4, I offer a novel account of the normative significance of genealogical challenges to concepts and show that they make salient the epistemic deficiencies in the target concept. By showing that the target concept - in virtue of aspects of its developmental trajectory - cannot represent aspects (empirical or normative) of reality well, such challenges imply that deploying the concept will not be conducive for concept-users to gain true beliefs or knowledge. After offering a model of what a genealogical challenge shows about the target concept, I discuss a genealogy of the concept of human dignity to motivate my model. Before concluding, I discuss two competing models of genealogical challenges to concepts - assimilation and generalism - and show that they misconstrue the proper object of a factual genealogical challenge.

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