Overview
- Provides a novel approach to epistemic responsibility assessment
- Argues for the epistemic significance of belief-influencing actions and omissions
- The author grounds his proposal in indirect doxastic control
Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 411)
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Table of contents (4 chapters)
Keywords
- Epistemology
- Epistemic Normativity
- Doxastic Agency
- Epistemic Responsibility
- Epistemic Norms
- Intellectual Norms
- Epistemic Peer Disagreement
- Epistemic Consequentialism
- Reliabilism
- Epistemic Externalism
- Social Epistemology
- doxastic responsibility
- doxastic attitudes
- doxastic control
- reasons-responsive doxastic control
- indirect doxastic control
- reliabilist approach to epistemic responsibility
- religion and society
About this book
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 disagreementdoes 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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: An Externalist Approach to Epistemic Responsibility
Book Subtitle: Intellectual Norms and their Application to Epistemic Peer Disagreement
Authors: Andrea Robitzsch
Series Title: Synthese Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19077-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19076-7Published: 04 July 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19079-8Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-19077-4Published: 21 June 2019
Series ISSN: 0166-6991
Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 227
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations
Topics: Epistemology, General Psychology, Social Philosophy, Personality and Social Psychology, Religion and Society