Epistemic Value
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چکیده
The value turn has numerous motivations; I’ll discuss three of them. The first of these motivations consists in the ancient roots of the idea that epistemology is in some important way value-theoretic. Plato and Aristotle both took epistemic states such as knowledge and understanding to have particular and distinctive value. So too did their immediate and medieval followers (Zagzebski 2001). These historical foci on value in epistemology have played a role in motivating some current writers to develop similar foci (Zagzebski 1996, Roberts and Wood 2007).
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