• DOI:10.1353/cjp.0.0083
Corpus ID: 143119656

Autonomy, Agency, and the Value of Enduring Beliefs

@article{Kawall2010AutonomyAA,
  title={Autonomy, Agency, and the Value of Enduring Beliefs},
  author={J. Kawall},
  journal={Canadian Journal of Philosophy},
  year={2010},
  volume={40},
  pages={107 - 129}
}

J. Kawall

Published 2010

Sociology

Canadian Journal of Philosophy

There has been much recent interest in questions of value in epistemology (for a thorough overview of this work, see Pritchard 2007), and in what follows I argue that epistemologists concerned with the value of true beliefs and knowledge would do well to devote attention to the enduring nature of beliefs, and in particular to the essential role that they play in constituting agents themselves. I begin by considering an analogy commonly drawn by epistemologists between acts in the domain of… CONTINUE READING

View on Taylor & Francis

philpapers.org

Save to Library

Create Alert

Cite

Launch Research Feed