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In Defense of Moral Evidentialism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper is a defense of moral evidentialism, the view that we have a moral obligation to form the doxastic attitude that is best supported by our evidence. I will argue that two popular arguments against moral evidentialism are weak. I will also argue
Ryan, Sharon
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Martyr Motahhari on the Ethics of Belief [PDF]

open access: yesحکمت معاصر, 2012
The term of ethics of belief is appeared for the first time in Clifford's well-known essay by the same title in 1876.According to Clifford's saying that became known afterwards as Clifford's Credo or Principle "It is wrong always, everywhere, and for ...
Majid Mollayousefi   +2 more
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Weighing the Aim of Belief Again [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In his influential discussion of the aim of belief, David Owens argues that any talk of such an ‘aim’ is at best metaphorical. In order for the ‘aim’ of belief to be a genuine aim, it must be weighable with other aims in deliberation, but Owens claims ...
Steglich-Petersen, Asbjørn
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A social solution to the puzzle of doxastic responsibility: a two-dimensional account of responsibility for belief [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
In virtue of what are we responsible for our beliefs? I argue that doxastic responsibility has a crucial social component: part of being responsible for our beliefs is being responsible to others.
Osborne, Robert Carry
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Normative Alethic Pluralism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Some philosophers have argued that truth is a norm of judgement and have provided a variety of formulations of this general thesis. In this paper, I shall side with these philosophers and assume that truth is a norm of judgement.
A Gibbard   +35 more
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Kant, the Practical Postulates, and Clifford’s Principle [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
In this paper I argue that Kant would have endorsed Clifford’s principle. The paper is divided into four sections. In the first, I review Kant’s argument for the practical postulates.
Kahn, Samuel
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Virtue Epistemology: Internalism and Externalism Justification [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This research work titled, “Virtue epistemology: Internalism and Externalism Justification” attempts to give a succinct analysis of the justification of our knowledge. It rigorously scrutinizes the sources of our knowledge claim.
Akwaji, Agabi Gabriel   +1 more
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Epistemic Duty and Implicit Bias [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
In this chapter, we explore whether agents have an epistemic duty to eradicate implicit bias. Recent research shows that implicit biases are widespread and they have a wide variety of epistemic effects on our doxastic attitudes.
Rettler, Bradley, Rettler, Lindsay
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Doxastic responsibility, guidance control, and ownership of belief [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
The contemporary debate over responsibility for belief is divided over the issue of whether such responsibility requires doxastic control, and whether this control must be voluntary in nature.
Osborne, Robert Carry
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Why There are No Epistemic Duties [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
An epistemic duty would be a duty to believe, disbelieve, or withhold judgment from a proposition, and it would be grounded in purely evidential or epistemic considerations. If I promise to believe it is raining, my duty to believe is not epistemic.
Wrenn, Chase B.
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