The Nature and Normativity of Defeat

by Christoph Kelp

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009161032
• ISBN13: 9781009161039
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 75 Pages
• Weight: 0.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"