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Responsibility for Rationality: Foundations of an Ethics of Mind book cover

1st Edition

Responsibility for Rationality Foundations of an Ethics of Mind

By Sebastian Schmidt Copyright 2025
212 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

212 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

212 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book develops the foundations of an ethics of mind by investigating the responsibility that is presupposed by the requirements of rationality that govern our attitudes. It thereby connects the most recent research on responsibility and rationality in a unifying dialectic. How can we be responsible for our attitudes if we cannot normally choose what we believe, desire, feel, and intend?... Read more

Part 1: The Problem of Mental Responsibility

1. Introduction

2. Mental Responsibility

3. Rationality and Reasons

Part 2: The Normativity of Epistemic Rationality

4. A Neglected Challenge for the Normativity of Epistemic Rationality

5. Blameworthiness for Epistemic Irrationality

Part 3: Foundations of an Ethics of Mind

6. A Hybrid Account of Mental Responsibility

7. Moralizing Rationality

8. Conclusion

Biography

Sebastian Schmidt is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Zurich Epistemology Group on Rationality (ZEGRa) at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. His work has appeared in journals such as Grazer Philosophische Studien, Erkenntnis, Philosophical Studies, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, and Philosophical Issues. He is the co‑editor, with Gerhard Ernst, of The Ethics of Belief and Beyond: Understanding Mental Normativity (Routledge, 2020). He is also a Research Associate at the African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science (ACEPS), University of Johannesburg.

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