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Epistemic Deontologism and Role-Oughts [PDF]
William Alston's argument against epistemological deontologism rests upon two key premises: first, that we lack a suitable amount of voluntary control with respect to our beliefs, and, second, the principle that ―ought‖ implies ―can.‖ While several responses to Alston have concerned rejecting either of these two premises, I argue that even on the ...
Altschul, Jon
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Dualistic consciousness and activism inherent dilemma [PDF]
Taking the first-person approach to the problem of consciousness, the plan of conceivability, explanatory and knowledge arguments is to show an epistemic gap in the first step and to prove a metaphysical gap in the second between mental and physical. The
reza akbari
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A type of transcendental argument for libertarian free will maintains that if acting freely requires the availability of alternative possibilities, and determinism holds, then one is not justified in asserting that there is no free will.
Nadine Elzein, Tuomas K. Pernu
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Perspectivism, Deontologism and Epistemic Poverty [PDF]
The epistemic poverty objection is commonly levelled by externalists against deontological conceptions of epistemic justification. This is that an “oughts” based account of epistemic justification together with “ought” implies “can” must lead us to hold to be justified, epistemic agents who are objectively not truth-conducive cognizers.
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Epistemic deontology, epistemic trade-offs, and Kant’s formula of humanity
AbstractAn epistemic deontology modelled on Kant’s ethics—in particular the humanity formula of the categorical imperative—is a promising alternative to epistemic consequentialism because it can forbid intuitively impermissible epistemic trade-offs which epistemic consequentialism seems doomed to permit and, most importantly, it can do so in a way that
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Hobartian Voluntarism and Epistemic Deontologism [PDF]
Abstract Mark Heller has recently offered a proposal in defense of a fairly strong version of doxastic voluntarism. Heller looks to the compatibilist theory of free will proposed by R.E. Hobart in the first half of the twentieth century for an account of doxastic control.
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Epistemic Justification: Deontological Aspects
The article analyzes the problems related to the philosophical analysis of epistemic duties – ranging from doubts about their existence as duties of a special kind to discussing the boundaries of such obligations and the limits of responsibility of the epistemic subject.
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Martyr Motahhari on the Ethics of Belief [PDF]
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 ...
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A noção deontológica de justificação epistêmica [PDF]
In this assay we present an introduction to the deontological conception of epistemic justification. We show that the deontological conception of epistemic justification appears of a parallel traced between ethics and epistemology by means of the use of ...
Felipe de Matos Muller
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Epistemic Defeat, Deontology and Internalism
What, on the view of many epistemologists, underlies the rationale for internalism is the deontological thought that epistemic justification proceeds in terms of how well our believing that p stands vis-a-vis relevant epistemic duties. However, in “Deontology and Defeat”, Bergmann argues that the view that justification is to be analyzed in deontic ...
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