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Epistemic Duties: New Arguments, New Angles book cover

1st Edition

Epistemic Duties New Arguments, New Angles

Edited By Kevin McCain, Scott Stapleford Copyright 2021
314 Pages
by Routledge

314 Pages
by Routledge

314 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Introductory Note

Kevin McCain and Scott Stapleford

Part I: The Nature of Epistemic Duty

1 Epistemic Duty, Justified Belief, and Voluntary Control

Matthias Steup

2 Believing Badly: Doxastic Duties are not Epistemic Duties

Miriam Schleifer McCormick

3 Evading the Doxastic Puzzle by Deflating Epistemic Normativity

Luis Oliveira

4 Epistemic Tension and Epistemic Duty: A Rossian Account

Mark T. Nelson

5 Intellectual Responsibility and the Scope of the Will

Robert Audi

6 We Are Like American Robins

Ema Sullivan-Bissett

Part II: Epistemic Duties of Individuals

7 Bound by the Evidence

Scott Stapleford and Kevin McCain

8 Epistemic Duty and Implicit Bias

Lindsay Rettler and Bradley Rettler

9 Robust Justification

Jonathan Matheson

10 Ought to Believe vs. Ought to Reflect

Anthony Robert Booth

11 Wisdom, Open-Mindedness, and Epistemic Duty

Sharon Ryan

12 On What We Should Believe (And When (and Why) We Should Believe What We Know We Should Not Believe)

Clayton Littlejohn

13 The Normative Ground of the Evidential Ought

Anne Meylan

Part III: Social Epistemic Duties

14 Responsibility for Fundamentalist Belief

Rik Peels

15 Trust, Testimony, and Reasons for Belief

Rebecca Wallbank and Andrew Reisner

16 When the Personal Becomes Political: How Do We Fulfil Our Epistemic Duties Relative to the Use of Autobiographical Stories in Public Debates?

Lisa Bortolotti and Sophie Stammers

17 Dialectical Responsibility and Regress Skepticism

Scott Aikin

18 Epistemic Duties Regarding Others

Jennifer Lackey

Biography

Kevin McCain is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His published works include: Evidentialism and Epistemic Justification (Routledge, 2014), The Nature of Scientific Knowledge: An Explanatory Approach (2016), and with Kostas Kampourakis Uncertainty: How It Makes Science Advance (2019).

Scott Stapleford is Professor of Philosophy at St. Thomas University, Fredericton. He is the author of Kant’s Transcendental Arguments: Disciplining Pure Reason (2008), coauthor (with Tyron Goldschmidt) of Berkeley’s Principles: Expanded and Explained (Routledge, 2016) and Hume’s Enquiry: Expanded and Explained (Routledge, forthcoming), and coauthor (with Lorne Falkenstein and Molly Kao) of Logic Works: A Rigorous Introduction to Formal Logic (Routledge, forthcoming).

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