ABSTRACT

What of substance can we say about well-being and epistemic goods? The phrase “epistemic goods” is ambiguous.1 It could be used to refer to the set of things that are both good and (in some sense that would need to be articulated) distinctively “epistemic.” Or it could be used to refer to the set of things that are good in some distinctively “epistemic” sense of “good” (that would need to be articulated). We are here interested in well-being, and so we shall adopt the former disambiguation, and understand “good” to mean “good vis-à-vis well-being.”2