An Externalist Approach to Epistemic Responsibility Intellectual Norms and their Application to Epistemic Peer Disagreement /

• Main Author: Robitzsch, Andrea (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science ; 411
• Subjects: Epistemology.; Psychology.; Social sciences-Philosophy.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Religion and sociology.; General Psychology.; Social Philosophy.; Personality and Social Psychology.; Religion and Society.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Doxastic responsibility and direct doxastic control
• Chapter 2. An approach to indirect doxastic responsibility
• Chapter 3. Intellectual norms and epistemic normativity
• Chapter 4. What should we do in the face of epistemic peer disagreement?.