Epistemic Value and the New Evil Demon

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 98 (1):89-107 (2017)
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Abstract

In this article I argue that the value of epistemic justification cannot be adequately explained as being instrumental to truth. I intend to show that false belief, which is no means to truth, can nevertheless still be of epistemic value. This in turn will make a good prima facie case that justification is valuable for its own sake. If this is right, we will have also found reason to think that truth value monism is false: assuming that true belief does have value, there is more of final epistemic value than mere true belief

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B. J. C. Madison
United Arab Emirates University

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