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The Ethics of Belief (Hardcover)
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The Ethics of Belief (Hardcover)
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How do people form beliefs, and how should they do so? This book
presents seventeen new essays on these questions, drawing together
perspectives from philosophy and psychology. The first section
explores the ethics of belief from an individualistic framework. It
begins by examining the question of doxastic voluntarism-i.e., the
extent to which people have control over their beliefs. It then
shifts to focusing on the kinds of character that epistemic agents
should cultivate, what their epistemic ends ought to be, and the
way in which these issues are related to other traditional
questions in epistemology. The section concludes by examining
questions of epistemic value, of whether knowledge is in some sense
primary, and of whether the ethics of belief falls within the
domain of epistemology or ethics. The second section extends this
traditional debate to issues concerning the social dimensions of
belief formation. It begins with essays by social psychologists
discussing the past three decades of research in 'lay epistemics'.
It continues by examining Humean, Kantian, and feminist insights
into the social aspects of belief formation, as well as questions
concerning the ethics of assertion. The section concludes with a
series of essays examining a topic that is currently of great
interest to epistemologists: namely, the significance of peer
disagreement.
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