Reasons, Justification, and Defeat

2021 OUP hardcover edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. Traditionally, the notion of defeat has been central to epistemology, practical reasoning, and ethics. Within epistemology, it is standardly assumed that a subject who knows that p, or justifiably believes that p, can lose this knowledge or justified belief by acquiring a so-called 'defeater', whether that is evidence that not-p, evidence that the process that produced her belief is unreliable, or evidence that she has likely misevaluated her own evidence. Within ethics and practical reasoning, it is widely accepted that a subject may initially have a reason to do something although this reason is later defeated by her acquisition of further information. However, the traditional conception of defeat has recently come under attack. Some have argued that the notion of defeat is problematically motivated; others that defeat is hard to accommodate within externalist or naturalistic accounts of knowledge or justification; and still others that the intuitions that support defeat can be explained in other ways. This volume presents new work re-examining the very notion of defeat, and its place in epistemology and in normativity theory at large. Contents List of Contributors 1. Introduction - Jessica Brown and Mona Simion 2. The Normativity of Knowledge and the Scope and Sources of Defeat - Sanford C. Goldberg 3. The Structure of Defeat: Pollock's Evidentialism, Lackey's Framework, and Prospects for Reliabilism - Peter J. Graham and Jack C. Lyons 4. Losing Knowledge by Thinking about Thinking - Jennifer Nagel 5. Dispositional Evaluations and Defeat - Maria Lasonen-Aarnio 6. Suspension, Higher-Order Evidence, and Defeat - Errol Lord and Kurt Sylvan 7. Reasons for Reliabilism - Bob Beddor 8. Knowledge, Action, and Defeasibility - Carlotta Pavese 9. Undercutting Defeat: When it Happens and Some Implications for Epistemology - Matthew McGrath 10. Defeaters as Indicators of Ignorance - Julien Dutant and Clayton Littlejohn 11. Competing Reasons - Justin Snedegar 12. Perceptual Reasons and Defeat - Mark Schroeder Index.…