SOCSOC DEBATE: WHAT HAS EPISTEMIC VALUE?

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What has Epistemic Value? While the thought that knowledge is valuable is a natural one, pinning down the nature of this value is a difficult task. Is the value of knowledge ultimately practical - only valuable only insofar as it allows one to appropriately decision-make? Is having an accurate set of beliefs valuable in and of itself? Is there an epistemic value to knowledge which it has, but true belief lacks? In debate: Incoming Wykeham Chair of Logic Professor Richard Pettigrew (Uni of Bristol) and Professor Bernhard Salow (Magdalen College, Oxford).