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Book SynopsisReasons First explores the hypothesis that reasons have a basic explanatory role in ethics and epistemology. While widely accepted concerning moral worth, Schroeder argues that this idea also illuminates some long-standing puzzles to do with knowledge.
Trade ReviewSchroeder presents an ambitious, important innovation in epistemology, an innovation he describes as "the core hypothesis." * S. A. Mason, Concordia University, Choice Connect *
Reasons First offers a comprehensive account of reasons and beliefs. Schroeder's penetrating arguments take lessons from the role of reasons in ethics to develop a sophisticated account of their relation to rationality, knowledge, and justification. Along the way, Schroeder develops many subtle distinctions and considerations. The book is a tour de force, written with Schroeder's characteristic skill and verve. It will be a significant resource for epistemologists for years to come. * Juan Comesaña and Susanna Schellenberg, Philosophical Studies *
In his highly illuminating new book, Reasons First, Mark Schroeder shows us something of great importance. He takes the "Reasons First" program that has been so influential in ethics, and shows us what is the best way to extend this program from ethics to epistemology. This is important because if the Reasons First program is true at all, it should be true of epistemology as well as ethics * Ralph Wedgwood, Philosophical Studies *
Table of ContentsPreface Part 1: The Issues 1: Introduction 2: Reasons are Competitors Part 2: Rationality and Truth 3: Basic Perceptual Reasons 4: Subjective Reasons and Truth 5: The Apparent Factive Attitude View Part 3: How Evidence Rationalizes Belief 6: Balance in Epistemology 7: Epistemic Reasons as Right-Kind Reasons 8: Pragmatic Intellectualism 9: Doxastic Wrongs
