• Defending an indirect normativity of belief 

    Perinchery-Herman, Stephen (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
    In this dissertation, I seek to answer the following questions: is there such a thing as deontic epistemic normativity -- obligations, permissions, and prohibitions to act in a certain way based on epistemic grounds -- and ...
  • Naturalizing epistemology : reconsidering quine and nietzsche 

    Khawaja, Salman (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation argues for ways to construct a more viable normative epistemology--the part of epistemology that focuses on normative notions such ...