Blameworthy Belief A Study in Epistemic Deontologism /

• Main Author: Nottelmann, Nikolaj (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Series: Synthese Library ; 338
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Epistemology.; Ethics.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Political science.; Philosophy of mind.; Philosophy of Law.; Philosophy of Mind.; Philosophy of Education.; Philosophy, general.

Believing the wrong thing may sometimes have drastic consequences. The question as to when a person is not only ill-guided, but genuinely at fault for holding a particular belief is an important one: It touches upon the roots of our understanding of such notions as criminal negligence and moral resp...

Table of Contents:

• Belief and Acceptance
• Approaching a Conception of Epistemic Blameworthiness
• Blameworthy Belief as Inexcusably Undesirable Belief
• Epistemic Undesirability
• Bruce Russell's Basic Analysis of the Notion of Epistemic Blameworthiness
• Doxastic Control
• Direct Content-Directed Doxastic Control or Doxastic Voluntarism
• Direct Property-Directed Doxastic Control or Property Voluntarism
• Indirect Content-Directed Doxastic Control or Doxastic Pascalianism
• Indirect Property-Directed Doxastic Control or Property Pascalianism
• Intellectual Obligations
• Foresight and Blameworthy Inadvertence to Risk
• Epistemic Blameworthiness Analysed
• Epistemic Autonomy.