Overview
- Proposes a new way to understand the difference between justified belief and opinion
- Is a new contribution to epistemology, addressing topics at the center of current debate
- Offers a new analysis of reliable belief-formation, with applications to epistemic closure, contextualism, skepticism, and virtue theories in epistemology
- Solves problems of generality, closure, and epistemic paradox that have discredited previous reliabilist theories of epistemic justification
- Proposes a new understanding of the relation between epistemic justification and probability
Part of the book series: Philosophical Studies Series (PSSP, volume 112)
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Authors and Affiliations
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Chapel Hill, USA
Jarrett Leplin
About the author
Jarrett Leplin is Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He received his undergraduate degree in mathematics from Amherst College in 1966, and his PhD in philosophy from the University of Chicago in 1972. He specializes in the philosophy of science and epistemology. He has lectured at over 50 universities and professional conferences, and is the author of over 100 publications, including "A Novel Defense of Scientific Realism", published by Oxford University Press in 1997. His work has focued on philosophical issues involving scientific method, the epistemology of scientific change, realism and instrumentalism, the nature of evidence, epistemic paradoxes, and reliabilist theories of justification and knowledge. He is the recipient of an NEH fellowship, an NEH summer stipend, and grants from the Philosophy of Science Association and the American Philosophical Society. Leplin has been Program Director of the Philosophy of Science Association and President of the North Carolina Philosophical Society.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Theory of Epistemic Justification
Authors: Jarrett Leplin
Series Title: Philosophical Studies Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9567-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-9566-5Published: 20 March 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8157-5Published: 10 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-9567-2Published: 28 February 2009
Series ISSN: 0921-8599
Series E-ISSN: 2542-8349
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 218
Topics: Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics