Epistemic Courage

Auteur
Jonathan Ichikawa is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Ichikawa has published extensively in epistemology, ethics, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and feminist philosophy. He is the co-author of The Rules of Thought (2013) and the author of Contextualizing Knowledge (2017). He received his PhD in philosophy from Rutgers University in 2008, and his MA from Brown University in 2005. Dr. Ichikawa also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. His research interests include the nature of knowledge, consent and rape culture, and the ethics of belief.

Texte du rabat

Epistemic Courage is a timely and thought-provoking exploration of the ethics of belief, which shows why epistemology is no mere academic abstraction - the question of what to believe couldn't be more urgent. Jonathan Ichikawa argues that a skeptical, negative bias about belief is connected to a conservative bias that reinforces the status quo.

Contenu

• 1: Skepticism, Caution, and Conservatism

• 2: Positive Epistemology and the Duty to Believe

• 3: Do Beliefs Need Justification?

• 4: Moral and Pragmatic Encroachment

• 5: Faith and Doubt in Epistemology

• 6: Epistemic Courage

• 7: Skepticism and Rape Culture

• 8: Contextual Injustice

• Bibliography