Epistemic Duties

Epistemic Duties
Author: Kevin McCain
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 446
Release: 2020-10-11
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0429638620

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.

Responsible Belief

Responsible Belief
Author: Rik Peels
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2017
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0190608110

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.

Epistemic Dilemmas

Epistemic Dilemmas
Author: Kevin McCain
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2021-10-21
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1000468518

This book features original essays by leading epistemologists that address questions related to epistemic dilemmas from a variety of new, sometimes unexpected, angles. It seems plausible that there can be "no win" moral situations in which no matter what one does one fails some moral obligation. Is there an epistemic analog to moral dilemmas? Are there epistemically dilemmic situations—situations in which we are doomed to violate an epistemic requirement? If there are, when exactly do they arise and what can we learn from them? The contributors to this volume cover a wide variety of positions on epistemic dilemmas. The coverage ranges from discussions of the nature of epistemic dilemmas to arguments that there are no such things to suggestions for how to resolve (or at least live with) epistemic dilemmas to proposals for how thinking about epistemic dilemmas can be used to inform theorizing in other areas of epistemology. Epistemic Dilemmas will be of interest to scholars and advanced students in epistemology working on the nature of justification and evidential support, higher-order requirements, or suspension of judgment.

The Dialogical Mind

The Dialogical Mind
Author: Ivana Marková
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2016-09
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1107002559

Marková offers a dialogical perspective to problems in daily life and professional practices involving communication, care, and therapy.

The Right to Know

The Right to Know
Author: Lani Watson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 127
Release: 2021-05-26
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0429798431

This book provides the first comprehensive philosophical examination of the right to know and other epistemic rights: rights to goods such as information, knowledge, and truth.

Group Duties

Group Duties
Author: Stephanie Collins
Publisher:
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2019
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0198840276

Moral duties are regularly attributed to groups. Does this make conceptual sense or is this merely political rhetoric? And what are the implications for these individuals within groups? Collins outlines a Tripartite Model of group duties that can target political demands at the right entities, in the right way and for the right reasons.

An Externalist Approach to Epistemic Responsibility

An Externalist Approach to Epistemic Responsibility
Author: Andrea Robitzsch
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2019-06-21
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3030190773

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.

The Epistemology of Resistance

The Epistemology of Resistance
Author: José Medina
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2013
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199929025

This book explores the epistemic side of racial and sexual oppression. It elucidates how social insensitivities and imposed silences prevent members of different groups from listening to each other.

Knowledge, Dexterity, and Attention

Knowledge, Dexterity, and Attention
Author: Abrol Fairweather
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2017-05-18
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1107089824

This title provides the first thorough defense of a naturalized virtue epistemology.

Testimonial Injustice and Trust

Testimonial Injustice and Trust
Author: Melanie Altanian
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2023-11-28
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1003806422

This book presents novel approaches and perspectives to scholarship on epistemic injustice and particularly, testimonial injustice and their connections with public trust. Drawing from different philosophical schools of thought and approaches, the book provides a comprehensive analysis of the conditions, mechanisms and normative implications of testimonial injustice, a term most prominently introduced by Fricker (2007), and the role that trust can play in fostering testimonial justice. Through the application of theories of epistemic injustice, and testimonial injustice, to new contexts and cases, including gendered violence, disability, indigenous knowledge, genocide, vaccine hesitancy and the COVID-19 pandemic, the book sheds light on the real-world significance of these philosophical concepts. Testimonial Injustice and Trust introduces new directions for further research and will appeal to scholars and students in (critical) social and political epistemology, normative ethics as well as social and political philosophy more generally. The chapters in this book were originally published in the International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Social Epistemology and Educational Philosophy and Theory.