An Examination of an Argument Against the Autonomy of Epistemic Evaluation

These are mere slogans in need of clarification and refinement, but they express the conviction of many epistemologists that in order to be epistemic an evaluation must focus on some aspects of beliefs and believers and leave other aspects of them out of consideration. For example, typically, what evidence for the truth of p a subject has is treated as a consideration relevant for making an epistemic evaluation of the subject and his belief, but what moral emotions and aspirations the subject has are typically not regarded, per se, as relevant for making such evaluation. What features exactly of believers and beliefs are relevant for an epistemic evaluation is a question that a proper