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Epistemic Responsibility, Lorraine Code

I Intellectual Virtue 2 Father and Son: A Case Study 17 Introduction: The Gosse Case 17 Foundations, Coherence, and Narrative 24 Some Interim Conclusions 33 3 Toward a “Responsibilist” Epistemology 37 “The Raft and the Pyramid” 37 Epistemological Precedents 44 Responsibilism 50 Recommendations 63 4 The Ethics of Belief 68 The Ethical and the Epistemic 68 The Ethics of Belief 77 Belief and Choice 83 Implications 92 II Cognitive Activity 5 The Knowing Subject 99 Theoretical Basis 99 Kant cum Piaget: Steps Toward the Personal 101 Knowers As Persons 110 Epistemology and Human Nature 115 Consequences 122 6 Realism and Understanding 128 Realism, Truth, and Intellectual Virtue 128 Normative Realism 132 Subjectivism and Dogmatism 141 Understanding 147 The Lebenswelt: Cognitive Practice 161 7 Epistemic Community 166 Community and Commonability 166 Cognitive Interdependence and Trust 172 Contracts, Forms of Life, and Practices 178 Epistemological Altruism 189 Consequences 195 III Epistemic Life 8 Literature, Truth, and Understanding 201 Fiction as a Source of Understanding 201 Responsibility for Truth 210 The Case of Styron: The Factual and the Fictional 215 Implications 221 9 Cognitive Prac

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