An externalist approach to epistemic responsibility : intellectual norms and their application to epistemic peer disagreement / Andrea Robitzsch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robitzsch, Andrea, author.

Series:

Synthese library ; v. 411.

Synthese Library ; volume 411

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

xiv, 227 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2019]

Summary:

This monograph provides a novel reliabilist approach to epistemic responsibility assessment. The author presents unique arguments for the epistemic significance of belief-influencing actions and omissions. She grounds her proposal in indirect doxastic control. The book consists of four chapters. The first two chapters look at the different ways in which an agent might control the revision, retention, or rejection of her beliefs. They provide a systematic overview of the different approaches to doxastic control and contain a thorough study of reasons-responsive approaches to direct and indirect doxastic control. The third chapter provides a reliabilist approach to epistemic responsibility assessment which is based on indirect doxastic control. In the fourth chapter, the author examines epistemic peer disagreement and applies her reliabilist approach to epistemic responsibility assessment to this debate. She argues that the epistemic significance of peer disagreement does not only rely on the way in which an agent should revise her belief in the face of disagreement, it also relies on the way in which an agent should act. This book deals with questions of meliorative epistemology in general and with questions concerning doxastic responsibility and epistemic responsibility assessment in particular. It will appeal to graduate students and researchers with an interest in epistemology.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

e-book version

ISBN:

3030190765

9783030190767

OCLC:

1091004396

Publisher Number:

9783030190767

10.1007/978-3-030-19077-4