ETHICS OF BELIEF C

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-19-968652-0
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 354 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 696 g

How do people form beliefs, and how should they do so? This book presents seventeen new essays on these questions, drawing together perspectives from philosophy and psychology. The first section explores the ethics of belief from an individualistic framework. It begins by examining the question of doxastic voluntarism-i.e., the extent to which people have control over their beliefs. It then shifts to focusing on the kinds of character that epistemic agents should cultivate, what their epistemic ends ought to be, and the way in which these issues are related to other traditional questions in epistemology. The section concludes by examining questions of epistemic value, of whether knowledge is in some sense primary, and of whether the ethics of belief falls within the domain of epistemology or ethics.
The second section extends this traditional debate to issues concerning the social dimensions of belief formation. It begins with essays by social psychologists discussing the past three decades of research in 'lay epistemics'. It continues by examining Humean, Kantian, and feminist insights into the social aspects of belief formation, as well as questions concerning the ethics of assertion. The section concludes with a series of essays examining a topic that is currently of great interest to epistemologists: namely, the significance of peer disagreement.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Matheson, Vitz

Matheson, Jonathan

Vitz, Rico

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- SECTION I: The Ethics of Belief: Individual

- 1: Neil Levy and Eric Mandelbaum: The Powers that Bind: Doxastic Voluntarism and Epistemic Obligation

- 2: Andrei Buckareff: Deciding to Believe Redux

- 3: Heather Battaly: Varieties of Epistemic Vice

- 4: Ernest Sosa: Knowledge and Time: Kripke's Dogmatism Paradox and the Ethics of Belief

- 5: Dennis Whitcomb: Can There Be a Knowledge-First Ethics of Belief?

- 6: Duncan Pritchard: Truth as the Fundamental Epistemic Good

- 7: Berit Brogaard: Wide-Scope Requirements and the Ethics of Belief

- 8: Trent Dougherty: The 'Ethics of Belief' is Ethics (Period): Reassigning Responsibilism

- SECTION II: The Ethics of Belief: Social

- 9: Arie W. Kruglanski and Lauren M. Boyatzi: The Psychology of Knowledge Formation: Its Impetus, Mechanism, and Social Context

- 10: Mark Dechesne and Charlotte de Roon: Perspectives on Social Knowledge

- 11: Rico Vitz: Contagion, Community, and Virtue in Hume's Epistemology

- 12: Heidi Grasswick: Understanding Epistemic Normativity in Feminist Epistemology

- 13: Catherine Z. Elgin: The Commonwealth of Epistemic Ends

- 14: Sanford Goldberg: Assertion and the Ethics of Belief

- 15: Richard Feldman: Evidence of Evidence is Evidence

- 16: Thomas Kelly: Believers as Thermometers

- 17: Jonathan Matheson: Disagreement: Idealized and Everyday

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jonathan Matheson is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of North Florida. He is the author of 'The Case for Rational Uniqueness' (Logos & Episteme), 'Are Conciliatory Views of Disagreement Self-Defeating?' (Social Epistemology), 'Conciliatory Views of Disagreement and Higher-Order Evidence' (Episteme: A Journal of Social Philosophy), and 'Bergmann's Dilemma: Exit Strategies for Internalists' (Philosophical Studies), co-authored with Jason Rogers.

Rico Vitz is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Azusa Pacific University. He is the author of Reforming the Art of Living: Nature, Virtue, and Religion in Descartes's Philosophy (Springer, forthcoming) as well as various articles and chapters, including 'The Nature and Functions of Sympathy in Hume's Philosophy' (The Oxford Handbook of David Hume), 'Thomas More and the Christian 'Superstition': A Puzzle for Hume's Psychology of Religious Belief' (The Modern Schoolman), 'Descartes and the Question of Direct Doxastic Voluntarism' (Journal of Philosophical Research), 'Doxastic Virtues in Hume's Epistemology' (Hume Studies), and 'Sympathy and Benevolence in Hume's Moral Psychology' (Journal of the History of Philosophy).