Table of Contents

IntroductionPart I: Dispositional Architecture of Epistemic Reasons1. Possessing Reasons: A Dispositional Framework2. A Dispositional Analysis of Propositional and Doxastic Justification3. Dispositions and the Problem of the Basing RelationPart II: Perceptual Reasons 4. The Epistemic Value of Perceptual Experience5. Epistemic Conservatism and Perceptual Justification6. Dogmatism: The Dispositional Structure of Perceptual ReasonsPart III: Consequences7. Higher-order Evidence and the Dispositional Structure of Epistemic Defeat8. The Nature of Inference9. The Epistemic Value of Emotions10. Motivational Internalism and Motivating Reasons11. Self-knowledge: The Epistemic Significance of the Transparency Procedure

About the Author

Hamid Vahid is Professor of Philosophy at the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences, Iran. He is the author of Epistemic Justification and the Skeptical Challenge (2005) and The Epistemology of Belief (2009).