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Author : Charles Roderick Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Doxastic Voluntarism and Epistemic Responsibility written by Charles Roderick Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rik Peels
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190608110
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Responsible Belief written by Rik Peels and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops and defends a theory of responsible belief. The author argues that we lack control over our beliefs, but that we can nonetheless influence them. It is because we have intellectual obligations to influence our beliefs that we are responsible for them.
Download or read book Responsibility for Belief written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Many contemporary philosophers defend a deontological conception of epistemic justification. However, the viability of such a conception seems to depend crucially upon agents being able to exert control over their beliefs. I examine various attempts to show, either that the deontological concept does not require doxastic voluntarism, or that doxastic voluntarism is true. These attempts all fail. I claim that this demonstrates that the range of appropriate ascriptions of responsibility for belief is very limited: epistemic recklessness is the only kind of doxastic responsibility there is.
Author : Miriam Schleifer McCormick
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136682686
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)
Download or read book Believing Against the Evidence written by Miriam Schleifer McCormick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of whether it is ever permissible to believe on insufficient evidence has once again become a live question. Greater attention is now being paid to practical dimensions of belief, namely issues related to epistemic virtue, doxastic responsibility, and voluntarism. In this book, McCormick argues that the standards used to evaluate beliefs are not isolated from other evaluative domains. The ultimate criteria for assessing beliefs are the same as those for assessing action because beliefs and actions are both products of agency. Two important implications of this thesis, both of which deviate from the dominant view in contemporary philosophy, are 1) it can be permissible (and possible) to believe for non-evidential reasons, and 2) we have a robust control over many of our beliefs, a control sufficient to ground attributions of responsibility for belief.
Author : Matthias Steup
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780199833764
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (337 download)
Download or read book Knowledge, Truth, and Duty written by Matthias Steup and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text examines epistemic duty, doxastic voluntarism, the normativity of justification, internalism versus externalism truth as the epistemic goal, and scepticism and the search for justification.
Author : Nikolaj Nottelmann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402059612
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Blameworthy Belief written by Nikolaj Nottelmann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-07-18 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Believing the wrong thing can have drastic consequences. The question of when a person is not only ill-guided, but genuinely at fault for holding a particular belief goes to the root of our understanding of such notions as criminal negligence and moral responsibility. This book explores the conditions under which someone may be deemed blameworthy for holding a particular belief, drawing on contemporary epistemology, ethics and legal scholarship.
Author : Matthias Steup
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019802956X
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Knowledge, Truth, and Duty written by Matthias Steup and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume gathers eleven new and three previously unpublished essays that take on questions of epistemic justification, responsibility, and virtue. It contains the best recent work in this area by major figures such as Ernest Sosa, Robert Audi, Alvin Goldman, and Susan Haak.
Author : Sebastian Schmidt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000062007
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Ethics of Belief and Beyond written by Sebastian Schmidt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-03 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a framework for approaching and understanding mental normativity. It presents cutting-edge research on the ethics of belief as well as innovative research beyond the normativity of belief—and towards an ethics of mind. By moving beyond traditional issues of epistemology the contributors discuss the most current ideas revolving around rationality, responsibility, and normativity. The book’s chapters are divided into two main parts. Part I discusses contemporary issues surrounding the normativity of belief. The essays here cover topics such as control over belief and its implication for the ethics of belief, the role of the epistemic community for the possibility of epistemic normativity, responsibility for believing, doxastic partiality in friendship, the structure and content of epistemic norms, and the norms for suspension of judgment. In Part II the focus shifts from the practical dimensions of belief to the normativity and rationality of other mental states—especially blame, passing thoughts, fantasies, decisions, and emotions. These essays illustrate how we might approach an ethics of mind by focusing not only on belief, but also more generally on debates about responsibility and rationality, as well as on normative questions concerning other mental states or attitudes. The Ethics of Belief and Beyond paves the way towards an ethics of mind by building on and contributing to recent philosophical discussions in the ethics of belief and the normativity of other mental phenomena. It will be of interest to upper-level students and researchers working in epistemology, ethics, philosophy of action, philosophy of mind, and moral psychology.
Author : Kevin McCain
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429638620
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)
Download or read book Epistemic Duties written by Kevin McCain and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-11 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are arguably moral, legal, and prudential constraints on behavior. But are there epistemic constraints on belief? Are there any requirements arising from intellectual considerations alone? This volume includes original essays written by top epistemologists that address this and closely related questions from a variety of new, sometimes unexpected, angles. It features a wide variety of positions, ranging from arguments for and against the existence of purely epistemic requirements, reductions of epistemic requirements to moral or prudential requirements, the biological foundations of epistemic requirements, extensions of the scope of epistemic requirements to include such things as open-mindedness, eradication of implicit bias and interpersonal duties to object, to new applications such as epistemic requirements pertaining to storytelling, testimony, and fundamentalist beliefs. Anyone interested in the nature of responsibility, belief, or epistemic normativity will find a range of useful arguments and fresh ideas in this cutting-edge anthology. Chapter 14 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Author : Timothy Hoo Wai Chan
Publisher : Oxford University Press (UK)
ISBN 13 : 019967213X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book The Aim of Belief written by Timothy Hoo Wai Chan and published by Oxford University Press (UK). This book was released on 2013 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Aim of Belief is the first book devoted to the question: 'what is belief?' Eleven newly commissioned essays by leading authors reflect the state of the art and further advance the current debate. The book will be key reading for researchers working on philosophy of mind and action, epistemology, and meta-ethics.
Author : Jonathan Matheson
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ISBN 13 : 0199686521
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book The Ethics of Belief written by Jonathan Matheson and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do people form beliefs, and how should they do so? This book presents seventeen new essays on these questions, drawing together perspectives from philosophy and psychology. The first section explores the ethics of belief from an individualistic framework. It begins by examining the question of doxastic voluntarism-i.e., the extent to which people have control over their beliefs. It then shifts to focusing on the kinds of character that epistemic agents should cultivate, what their epistemic ends ought to be, and the way in which these issues are related to other traditional questions in epistemology. The section concludes by examining questions of epistemic value, of whether knowledge is in some sense primary, and of whether the ethics of belief falls within the domain of epistemology or ethics. The second section extends this traditional debate to issues concerning the social dimensions of belief formation. It begins with essays by social psychologists discussing the past three decades of research in 'lay epistemics'. It continues by examining Humean, Kantian, and feminist insights into the social aspects of belief formation, as well as questions concerning the ethics of assertion. The section concludes with a series of essays examining a topic that is currently of great interest to epistemologists: namely, the significance of peer disagreement.
Author : David Owens
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134593295
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)
Download or read book Reason Without Freedom written by David Owens and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that the major problems in epistemology have their roots in concerns about our control over our beliefs, David Owen presents a critical discussion of the current trends in contemporary epistemology.
Author : Luciano Floridi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319040936
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The Onlife Manifesto written by Luciano Floridi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-16 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on the human condition? In order to address this question, in 2012 the European Commission organized a research project entitled The Onlife Initiative: concept reengineering for rethinking societal concerns in the digital transition. This volume collects the work of the Onlife Initiative. It explores how the development and widespread use of ICTs have a radical impact on the human condition. ICTs are not mere tools but rather social forces that are increasingly affecting our self-conception (who we are), our mutual interactions (how we socialise); our conception of reality (our metaphysics); and our interactions with reality (our agency). In each case, ICTs have a huge ethical, legal, and political significance, yet one with which we have begun to come to terms only recently. The impact exercised by ICTs is due to at least four major transformations: the blurring of the distinction between reality and virtuality; the blurring of the distinction between human, machine and nature; the reversal from information scarcity to information abundance; and the shift from the primacy of stand-alone things, properties, and binary relations, to the primacy of interactions, processes and networks. Such transformations are testing the foundations of our conceptual frameworks. Our current conceptual toolbox is no longer fitted to address new ICT-related challenges. This is not only a problem in itself. It is also a risk, because the lack of a clear understanding of our present time may easily lead to negative projections about the future. The goal of The Manifesto, and of the whole book that contextualises, is therefore that of contributing to the update of our philosophy. It is a constructive goal. The book is meant to be a positive contribution to rethinking the philosophy on which policies are built in a hyperconnected world, so that we may have a better chance of understanding our ICT-related problems and solving them satisfactorily. The Manifesto launches an open debate on the impacts of ICTs on public spaces, politics and societal expectations toward policymaking in the Digital Agenda for Europe’s remit. More broadly, it helps start a reflection on the way in which a hyperconnected world calls for rethinking the referential frameworks on which policies are built.
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Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Doxastic Responsibility Without Doxastic Control written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doxastic responsibility—or more colloquially, “the ethics of belief”—is simultaneously a modest and an ambitious project. Its modest analysandum is not the prized epistemological notions of justification or knowledge. Belief, however, is largely viewed as being entailed by knowledge. Its ambitious aim begins with the observation that not all beliefs satisfy the conditions of knowledge. Though we often fail to know what we knowingly believe, what we believe is believed to be true. It is from this cognitive condition of belief that our choices and decisions, our desires and goals, our actions and omissions, are guided. Doxastic responsibility involves much more than what we believe to be true; it also involves mistaken beliefs and our frequent failures to have formed any belief whatsoever towards an important proposition. Moreover, it involves one’s entitlement to true beliefs. Beliefs’ influence on our lives, and the lives of others, requires an ambitious project of not only epistemic responsibility but also of prudential and moral responsibility. In many cases, whether an agent acts responsibly or culpably depends on whether she believes responsibly or culpably. But is belief something for which one can be responsible? While many philosophers argue that it is wrong to separate the notions of responsibility and control, and thus, that it is wrong to separate the notions of doxastic responsibility and doxastic control, I will argue against this latter position. There is reason to believe that no such doxastic control is required for doxastic responsibility. Nevertheless, control somewhere seems to be required. Being doxastically responsible, I will argue, is intimately linked to acting responsibly. Beliefs are tied to action in a surprising way. It is what we do, or fail to do, that ends up making the difference to what we believe. The reliance on belief-influencing actions, however, is complicated by skeptical worries of causal determinism. Does our acting responsibly entail the possibility to do otherwise? Does believing responsibly entail the ability to believe otherwise? In a sense to be explained, I will argue that the answer to both questions is a resounding yes.
Author : Andrea Robitzsch
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030190773
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)
Download or read book An Externalist Approach to Epistemic Responsibility written by Andrea Robitzsch and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-21 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph provides a novel reliabilist approach to epistemic responsibility assessment. The author presents unique arguments for the epistemic significance of belief-influencing actions and omissions. She grounds her proposal in indirect doxastic control. The book consists of four chapters. The first two chapters look at the different ways in which an agent might control the revision, retention, or rejection of her beliefs. They provide a systematic overview of the different approaches to doxastic control and contain a thorough study of reasons-responsive approaches to direct and indirect doxastic control. The third chapter provides a reliabilist approach to epistemic responsibility assessment which is based on indirect doxastic control. In the fourth chapter, the author examines epistemic peer disagreement and applies her reliabilist approach to epistemic responsibility assessment to this debate. She argues that the epistemic significance of peer disagreement does not only rely on the way in which an agent should revise her belief in the face of disagreement, it also relies on the way in which an agent should act. This book deals with questions of meliorative epistemology in general and with questions concerning doxastic responsibility and epistemic responsibility assessment in particular. It will appeal to graduate students and researchers with an interest in epistemology.
Author : Anjan Chakravartty
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190651474
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Scientific Ontology written by Anjan Chakravartty and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both science and philosophy are interested in questions of ontology - questions about what exists and what these things are like. Science and philosophy, however, seem like very different ways of investigating the world, so how should one proceed? Some defer to the sciences, conceived as something apart from philosophy, and others to metaphysics, conceived as something apart from science, for certain kinds of answers. This book contends that these sorts of deference are misconceived. A compelling account of ontology must appreciate the ways in which the sciences incorporate metaphysical assumptions and arguments. At the same time, it must pay careful attention to how observation, experience, and the empirical dimensions of science are related to what may be viewed as defensible philosophical theorizing about ontology. The promise of an effectively naturalized metaphysics is to encourage beliefs that are formed in ways that do justice to scientific theorizing, modeling, and experimentation. But even armed with such a view, there is no one, uniquely rational way to draw lines between domains of ontology that are suitable for belief, and ones in which it would be better to suspend belief instead. In crucial respects, ontology is in the eye of the beholder: it is informed by underlying commitments with implications for the limits of inquiry, which inevitably vary across rational inquirers. As result, the proper scope of ontology is subject to a striking form of voluntary choice, yielding a new and transformative conception of scientific ontology.
Author : Jan Willem Wieland
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198779666
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Responsibility written by Jan Willem Wieland and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophers have long agreed that moral responsibility might not only have a freedom condition, but also an epistemic condition. Moral responsibility and knowledge interact, but the question is exactly how. Ignorance might constitute an excuse, but the question is exactly when. Surprisingly enough, the epistemic condition has only recently attracted the attention of scholars. This volume sets the agenda. Sixteen new essays address the following central questions: Does the epistemic condition require akrasia? Why does blameless ignorance excuse? Does moral ignorance sustained by one's culture excuse? Does the epistemic condition involve knowledge of the wrongness or wrongmaking features of one's action? Is the epistemic condition an independent condition, or is it derivative from one's quality of will or intentions? Is the epistemic condition sensitive to degrees of difficulty? Are there different kinds of moral responsibility and thus multiple epistemic conditions? Is the epistemic condition revisionary? What is the basic structure of the epistemic condition?
