Epistemic Duties and Failure to Understand one's Evidence

Vol 16, No 1 (2012) • Principia: an international journal of epistemology

Autor: Scott Stapleford

Abstract:

The paper defends the thesis that our epistemic duty is the duty to proportion our beliefs to the evidence we possess. An inclusive view of evidenced possessed is put forward on the grounds that it makes sense of our intuitions about when it is right to say that a person ought to believe some proposition P. A second thesis is that we have no epistemic duty to adopt any particular doxastic attitudes. The apparent tension between the two theses is resolved by applying the concept of duty to belief indirectly.

ISSN: 1414-4217

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1808-1711.2012v16n1p147

Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/principia/article/view/1808-1711.2012v16n1p147/22781

Palavras-Chave: ethics of belief,doxastic voluntarism,Episte

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