Utilitarian epistemology
Synthese 190 (6):1173-1184 (2013)
| Abstract | Standard epistemology takes it for granted that there is a special kind of value: epistemic value. This claim does not seem to sit well with act utilitarianism, however, since it holds that only welfare is of real value. I first develop a particularly utilitarian sense of “epistemic value”, according to which it is closely analogous to the nature of financial value. I then demonstrate the promise this approach has for two current puzzles in the intersection of epistemology and value theory: first, the problem of why knowledge is better than mere true belief, and second, the relation between epistemic justification and responsibility | |||||||||
| Keywords | Epistemology Utilitarianism Epistemic value Meno problem Value of knowledge Justification Responsibility Epistemic justification Epistemic responsibility | |||||||||
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