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Epistemic deontologism and the voluntarist strategy against doxastic involuntarism [PDF]

, 2011
According to the deontological conception of epistemic justification, a belief is justified when it is our obligation or duty as rational creatures to believe it. However, this view faces an important objection according to which we cannot have such epistemic obligations since our beliefs are never under our voluntary control.
Côté-Bouchard, Charles
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Epistemic justification, rights, and permissibility [PDF]

, 2012
Can we understand epistemic justification in terms of epistemic rights? In this paper, we consider two arguments for the claim that we cannot and in doing so, we provide two arguments for the claim that we can.
Booth, Anthony, Peels, Rik
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A Case for Epistemic Agency [PDF]

, 2015
This paper attempts to answer two questions: What is epistemic agency? And what are the motivations for having this concept? In response to the first question, it is argued that epistemic agency is the agency one has over one’s belief-forming practices ...
Olson, Dustin
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Virtue Epistemology: Internalism and Externalism Justification [PDF]

, 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, Nchua, Edward Augustine   +1 more
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Standard Bearers [PDF]

, 2017
In both ethics and epistemology an important question is whether justification is a fully internal or a partly external matter. In view of analogies between relevant considerations in each area, I recommend distinguishing, as basic and independent ...
Sosa, David
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Can We Believe Without Sufficient Evidence? The James/Clifford Quarrel and the Response of Alvin Plantinga [PDF]

, 2023
This paper aims to be a brief discussion about the character of “evidentialism” in the discussion between William Clifford and William James. Known under the topic “the ethics of belief,” it discusses the problem of religious epistemology, specifically ...
Lampert, Fabio
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Staying true with the help of others: doxastic self-control through interpersonal commitment [PDF]

, 2019
I explore the possibility and rationality of interpersonal mechanisms of doxastic self-control, that is, ways in which individuals can make use of other people in order to get themselves to stick to their beliefs.
Cialdini R. B., Gazzaniga M. S., Gilbert M., Gilbert M., Gilbert M., Heil J., Hieronymi P., Janis I. L., Janis I. L., Kulik J. A., Leo Charles Townsend, Leon M., McCormick M. S., Meijers A., Mele A., Nottelmann N., Paul S., Paul S., Pettit P., Reisner A., Schwartz J., Steup M., Townsend L., Townsend L., Williams B., Wray K.   +25 more
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Ought to believe, simpliciter [PDF]

, 2022
According to many philosophers there are only pro tanto oughts to believe relative to a standard of assessment: there are epistemic oughts to believe, moral oughts to believe, prudential oughts to believe etc.
Booth, Anthony Robert
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Epistemic internalism [PDF]

, 2010
The internalism/externalism debate is of interest in epistemology since it addresses one of the most fundamental questions in the discipline: what is the basic nature of knowledge and epistemic justification?
Madison, Brent J C
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Which ethics will make us individually and socially happier? A cross-culture and cross-development analytical model [PDF]

, 2009
This paper provides an analytical model representing four polar ethical approaches, by linking them to the main ethics suggested by the philosophical, psychological, and socio-economic literature.
Zagonari, Fabio
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