{"product_id":"epistemic-explanations-a-theory-of-telic-normativity-and-what-it-explains-9780198856467","title":"Epistemic Explanations: A Theory of Telic Normativity, and What it Explains","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003eEpistemic Explanations offers an improved virtue epistemology that explains epistemic phenomena, including knowledge and understanding in the humanities, suspension of judgment, and secure knowledge. It reconfigures earlier virtue epistemology and introduces a metaphysical hierarchy of epistemic categories. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 256 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 13 August 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEpistemic Explanations presents an enhanced virtue epistemology, which is then applied to explain various epistemic phenomena. Part I establishes a telic virtue epistemology that can accommodate diverse forms of knowledge and understanding, particularly relevant to the humanities. Part II explores an epistemology of suspension of judgment, by linking it to degrees of confidence and inquiry. Part III further develops a significantly improved telic virtue epistemology by leveraging default assumptions that are crucial in domains of human performance, broadly speaking, and in our intellectual lives as a specific instance. This reconfigures earlier virtue epistemology, which now appears as a preliminary approach. Additionally, this part introduces a metaphysical hierarchy of epistemic categories and defends a category of secure knowledge in particular.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEpistemic Explanations offers an enhanced virtue epistemology, which is then utilized to explain various epistemic phenomena. Part I establishes a telic virtue epistemology that can accommodate diverse forms of knowledge and understanding, particularly relevant to the humanities. Part II explores an epistemology of suspension of judgment, by linking it to degrees of confidence and inquiry. Part III further develops a significantly improved telic virtue epistemology by leveraging default assumptions that are crucial in domains of human performance, broadly speaking, and in our intellectual lives as a specific instance. This reconfigures earlier virtue epistemology, which now appears as a preliminary approach. Additionally, this part introduces a metaphysical hierarchy of epistemic categories and defends a category of secure knowledge in particular.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEpistemic Explanations presents an enhanced virtue epistemology, which is then applied to explain various epistemic phenomena. Part I establishes a telic virtue epistemology that can accommodate diverse forms of knowledge and understanding, particularly relevant to the humanities. Part II explores an epistemology of suspension of judgment, by linking it to degrees of confidence and inquiry. Part III further develops a significantly improved telic virtue epistemology by leveraging default assumptions that are crucial in domains of human performance, broadly speaking, and in our intellectual lives as a specific instance. This reconfigures earlier virtue epistemology, which now appears as a preliminary approach. Additionally, this part introduces a metaphysical hierarchy of epistemic categories and defends a category of secure knowledge in particular.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEpistemic Explanations offers an enhanced virtue epistemology, which is then utilized to explain various epistemic phenomena. Part I establishes a telic virtue epistemology that can accommodate diverse forms of knowledge and understanding, particularly relevant to the humanities. Part II explores an epistemology of suspension of judgment, by linking it to degrees of confidence and inquiry. Part III further develops a significantly improved telic virtue epistemology by leveraging default assumptions that are crucial in domains of human performance, broadly speaking, and in our intellectual lives as a specific instance. This reconfigures earlier virtue epistemology, which now appears as a preliminary approach. Additionally, this part introduces a metaphysical hierarchy of epistemic categories and defends a category of secure knowledge in particular.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEpistemic Explanations presents an enhanced virtue epistemology, which is then applied to explain various epistemic phenomena. Part I establishes a telic virtue epistemology that can accommodate diverse forms of knowledge and understanding, particularly relevant to the humanities. Part II explores an epistemology of suspension of judgment, by linking it to degrees of confidence and inquiry. Part III further develops a significantly improved telic virtue epistemology by leveraging default assumptions that are crucial in domains of human performance, broadly speaking, and in our intellectual lives as a specific instance. This reconfigures earlier virtue epistemology, which now appears as a preliminary approach. 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