The ethics of belief : individual and social / Jonathan Matheson and Rico Vitz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Matheson, Jonathan, editor.

Vitz, Rico, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Belief and doubt--Moral and ethical aspects.

Belief and doubt.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 336 pages)

Other Title:

Individual and social

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How do people form beliefs, and how should they do so? The first part of this book explores the ethics of belief from an individualistic framework, and the second part extends this traditional debate to issues concerning the social dimensions of belief formation.

Contents:

SECTION I: The ethics of belief : individual

1. The powers that bind : doxastic voluntarism and epistemic obligation

Deciding to believe redux

Varieties of epistemic vice

Knowledge and time : Kripke's dogmatism paradox and the ethics of belief

Can there be a knowledge-first ethics of belief?

Truth as the fundamental epistemic good

Wide-scope requirements and the ethics of belief

The 'Ethics of Belie'' is ethics (Period) : reassigning responsibilism

SECTION II: The Ethics of belief : social

The Psychology of knowledge formation : its impetus, mechanism, and social context

Perspectives on social knowledge

Contagion, community, and virtue in Hume's epistemology

Understanding epistemic normativity in feminist epistemology

The Commonwealth of epistemic ends

Assertion and the ethics of belief

Evidence of evidence is evidence

Believers as thermometers

Disagreement : idealized and everyday

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 3, 2014).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-176634-8

OCLC:

891146514