<p><P>Believing the wrong thing may sometimes have drastic consequences. The question as to when a person is not only ill-guided, but genuinely at fault for holding a particular belief is an important one: It touches upon the roots of our understanding of such notions as criminal negligence and mora
Blameworthy Belief: A Study in Epistemic Deontologism
β Scribed by Nikolaj Nottelmann
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 282
- Series
- Synthese Library
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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<span>In this book Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski gives an extended argument that the self-reflective person is committed to belief on authority. Epistemic authority is compatible with autonomy, but epistemic self-reliance is incoherent. She argues that epistemic and emotional self-trust are rational and<
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