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All things considered duties to believe

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posted on 2023-06-08, 12:36 authored by Anthony BoothAnthony Booth
To be a doxastic deontologist is to claim that there is such a thing as an ethics of belief (or of our doxastic attitudes in general). In other words, that we are subject to certain duties with respect to our doxastic attitudes, the non-compliance with which makes us blameworthy and that we should understand doxastic justification in terms of these duties. In this paper, I argue that these duties are our all things considered duties, and not our epistemic or moral duties, for example. I show how this has the surprising result that, if deontologism is a thesis about doxastic justification, it entails that there is no such thing as epistemic or moral justification for a belief that p. I then suggest why this result, though controversial, may have some salutary consequences: primarily that it helps us make some sense of an otherwise puzzling situation regarding doxastic dilemmas.

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  • Published

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Journal

Synthese

ISSN

0039-7857

Publisher

Kluwer

Issue

2

Volume

187

Page range

509-517

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  • Philosophy Publications

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  • No

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2012-11-01

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2012-11-01

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