Trust Responsibly

This book offers a defence of Wrightean epistemic entitlement, one of the most prominent approaches to hinge epistemology. It also systematically explores the connections between virtue epistemology and hinge epistemology.

Autorentext

Jakob Ohlhorst is a postdoc at the Universities of Vienna and Amsterdam. Previously, he completed his Dr. Phil. at the University of Cologne. He has published 'Epistemic Austerity' at Synthese and 'Dual Processes, Dual Virtues' at Philosophical Studies, and both papers make key arguments for this book.

Inhalt

Introduction 1. Hinges, certainties, trust 2. Entitlement 3. Problems for entitlement: Demarcation, arbitrariness, and relativism 4. Virtue 5. Trust virtuously Conclusion