{"product_id":"epistemic-instrumentalism-explained","title":"Epistemic Instrumentalism Explained","description":"\u003cp\u003eDo epistemic requirements vary along with facts about what promotes agents' well-being? Epistemic instrumentalists say 'yes', and thereby earn a lot of contempt. This contempt is a mistake on two counts. First, it is incorrectly based: the reasons typically given for it are misguided. Second, it fails to distinguish between \u003ci\u003efirst- \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003esecond\u003c\/i\u003e-order epistemic instrumentalism; and, it happens, only the former is contemptible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this book, Nathaniel P. Sharadin argues for rejecting epistemic instrumentalism as a first-order view not because it suffers extensional failures, but because it suffers explanatory ones. By contrast, he argues that epistemic instrumentalism offers a natural, straightforward explanation of why being epistemically correct matters. What emerges is a second-order instrumentalist explanation for epistemic authority that is neutral between competing first-order epistemic theories. This neutrality is an advantage. But, drawing on work from cognitive science and psychology, Sharadin argues that instrumentalists can abandon that neutrality in order to adopt a view he calls epistemic ecologism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEpistemic Instrumentalism Explained\u003c\/em\u003e will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working in epistemology, ethics, and philosophy of mind.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49778484937048,"sku":"9780367561833","price":51.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780367561833.jpg?v=1780992940","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/epistemic-instrumentalism-explained","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}