Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition
Preface

1. Introduction: Epistemic Responsibility

Part I: Intellectual Virtue

2. Father and Son: A Case Study
Introduction: The Gosse Case
Foundations, Coherence, and Narrative
Some Interim Conclusions

3. Toward a "Responsibilist" Epistemology
"The Raft and the Pyramid"
Epistemological Precedents
Responsibilism
Recommendations

4. The Ethics of Belief
The Ethical and the Epistemic
The Ethics of Belief
Belief and Choice
Implications

Part II: Cognitive Activity

5. The Knowing Subject
Theoretical Basis
Kant cum Piaget: Steps Toward the Personal
Knowers As Persons
Epistemology and Human Nature
Consequences

6. Realism and Understanding
Realism, Truth, and Intellectual Virtue
Normative Realism
Subjectivism and Dogmatism
Understanding
The Lebenswelt: Cognitive Practice

7. Epistemic Community
Community and Commonability
Cognitive Interdependence and Trust
Contracts, Forms of Life, and Practices
Epistemological Altruism
Consequences

Part III: Epistemic Life

8. Literature, Truth, and Understanding
Fiction as a Source of Understanding
Responsibility for Truth
The Case of Styron: The Factual and the Fictional
Implications

9. Cognitive Practice
The Division of Intellectual Labor
Polanyi and/or Foucault
Education, Authority, and the Epistemic Community

10. Conclusion

Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Lorraine Code is Distinguished Research Professor Emerita of Philosophy at York University, Canada. She is the author of several books, including Manufactured Uncertainty: Implications for Climate Change Skepticism, also published by SUNY Press, and Ecological Thinking: The Politics of Epistemic Location.