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Epistemic Deontologism and Role-Oughts [PDF]
Logos & Episteme, 2014 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 ...
Jon Altschul
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Hobartian Voluntarism and Epistemic Deontologism [PDF]
Disputatio, 2006 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.
Andrei A. Buckareff
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Perspectivism, Deontologism and Epistemic Poverty [PDF]
Social Epistemology, 2015 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.
R. Lockie
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Dualistic consciousness and activism inherent dilemma [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفه, 2006 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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Plantinga’s Interpretation of Epistemological Deontologism
Roczniki Filozoficzne, 2022 Alvin Plantinga challenges the rooted tradition of thinking about justification as the subject’s fulfillment of his or her epistemic duty. I try to show that, in several respects, Plantinga misinterprets the idea of epistemic duties and that ...
Ewa Odoj
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European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 2019 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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Epistemic deontology, epistemic trade-offs, and Kant’s formula of humanity
Synthese, 2023 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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All things considered duties to believe
Synthese, 2012 To be a doxastic deontologist is to claim that there is such a thing as an ethics of belief (or of our doxastic attitudes in general). In other words, that we are subject to certain duties with respect to our doxastic attitudes, the non-compliance with ...
A. Booth
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Epistemic Justification: Deontological Aspects
Siberian Journal of Philosophy, 2020 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]
حکمت 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 ...
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