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Normative Externalism (Hardcover)
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Normative Externalism (Hardcover)
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Normative Externalism argues that it is not important that people
live up to their own principles. What matters, in both ethics and
epistemology, is that they live up to the correct principles: that
they do the right thing, and that they believe rationally. This
stance, that what matters are the correct principles, not one's own
principles, has implications across ethics and epistemology. In
ethics, it undermines the ideas that moral uncertainty should be
treated just like factual uncertainty, that moral ignorance
frequently excuses moral wrongdoing, and that hypocrisy is a vice.
In epistemology, it suggests we need new treatments of higher-order
evidence, and of peer disagreement, and of circular reasoning, and
the book suggests new approaches to each of these problems.
Although the debates in ethics and in epistemology are often
conducted separately, putting them in one place helps bring out
their common themes. One common theme is that the view that one
should live up to one's own principles looks less attractive when
people have terrible principles, or when following their own
principles would lead to riskier or more aggressive action than the
correct principles. Another common theme is that asking people to
live up to their principles leads to regresses. It can be hard to
know what action or belief complies with one's principles. And now
we can ask, in such a case should a person do what they think their
principles require, or what their principles actually require? Both
answers lead to problems, and the best way to avoid these problems
is to simply say people should follow the correct principles.
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