Rational Belief

Robert Audi is an internationally known contributor to epistemology. He has published books and numerous papers in the field, and he lectures widely in epistemology and such related areas as ethical theory and philosophy of action. His epistemological books include The Structure of Justification (1993), The Architecture of Reason (OUP, 2001), Epistemology (3rd edition, 2010), and Moral Perception (2013).

• Preface and Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; Part I. Belief: Its Structure, Content, and Relation to the Will ; Chapter 1 Dispositional Beliefs and Dispositions to Believe ; Chapter 2 Doxastic Voluntarism and the Ethics of Belief ; Chapter 3 Belief: A Study in Form, Content, and Justification ; Part II. Normativity and Virtue in Epistemology ; Chapter 4 Moral Perception and Moral Knowledge ; Chapter 5 Reliability as a Virtue ; Chapter 6 Knowledge, Justification, and the Normativity of Epistemology ; Part III. Epistemological Internalism and Grounds of Justification and Knowledge ; Chapter 7 An Internalist Theory of Normative Grounds ; Chapter 8 Theoretical Rationality: Its Sources, Structure, and Scope ; Chapter 9 Doxastic Innocence: Phenomenal Conservatism and Epistemological Common Sense ; Chapter 10 Skepticism About the A Priori: Self-Evidence, Defeasibility, and Cogito Propositions ; Part IV. Social Epistemology ; Chapter 11 The Place of Testimony in the Fabric of Knowledge and Justification ; Chapter 12 Testimony as a Social Foundation of Knowledge ; Chapter 13 The Ethics of Belief and the Morality of Disagreement: Intellectual Responsibility and Rational Disagreement ; Index

Audi has a distinctive position, if not on all issues, then in the way in which they are put together, as evinced by his endorsement of an internalist account of justification and an externalist account of knowledge. There is much here that is instructive, illuminating, provocative and worthy of considered response.