Responsible Belief A Theory in Ethics and Epistemology

includes index and biblioraphy

Why Responsible Belief Matters ........1 Responsible belief and Blameworthy belief .......1 1. Doxastic Responsibility : what is it?............14 Responsibility and appraisal ......15 Occurrent, formant, and tacit belief ...........28 Responsible belief is blameless belief .........43 2. The problem : Doxastic Control and doxastic obligations .........52 The argument from doxastic involuntarism .......53 Obligations and control .........56 First response : we have direct international doxastic control ............61 Second response : We have direct international doxastic Control ........61 Third Response : We have compatibilist doxastic control ...........72 Doxastic obligations without any kind of Control ......81 3. The solutions: doxastic influence and intellectual obligations .....89 Belief-influencing factors..........90 What are intellectual obligations .......96 What intellectual obligations do we have .......100 Six objections and replies ...........108 Intellectual obligations and responsible belief .............117 Doxastic excuses: force, ignorance, and luck ..............124 4. Responsible belief entails the ability to believe otherwise .............132 What is force?.........134 Force as a doxastic excuse .........137 Blameworthy force .........143 Control over or influence on properties of Beliefs...............148 Doxastic frankfurt-style scenarios.............150 The doxastic asymmetry objections ...........157 5. Responsible belief is radically subjective ...........164 What is ignorance?..........165 Ignorance as a Doxastic Excuse ............169 Ignorance as a narrow and a broad doxastic excuse ................182 Blameworthy belief and regress problem ................185 6. Responsible belief is compatible with doxastic luck ............199 What is luck ...........200 Four varieties of Doxastic luck and luck as a doxastic excuse ...........207 Consequential luck adn accidentality .........215 The problem of Doxastic Luck ...........218