A Luxury of the Understanding: On the Value of True Belief
Oxford University Press (forthcoming)
| Abstract | This is a critical study of the value of true belief: I argue that true belief is at most sometimes eudaimonically valuable (i.e. valuable vis-à-vis the wellbeing of the believer), and criticize realist accounts of the "epistemic" value of true belief that appeal to the thesis that belief "aims at truth." | |||||||||
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