Responsible belief a theory in ethics and epistemology 1st Edition by Rik Peels ISBN 0190608110 9780190608118

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ISBN 10:    0190608110
ISBN 13: 978-0190608118
Author:       Rik Peels

What we believe and what we do not believe has a great impact on what we do and fail to do. Hence, if we want to act responsibly, we should believe responsibly. However, do we have the kind of control over our beliefs that such responsibility for our beliefs seems to require? Do we have certain obligations to control or influence our beliefs on particular occasions? And do we sometimes believe responsibly despite violating such obligations, namely because we are excused by, say, indoctrination or ignorance?

By answering each of these questions, Rik Peels provides a theory of what it is to believe responsibly. He argues that we lack control over our beliefs, but that we can nonetheless influence our beliefs by performing actions that make a difference to what we believe. We have a wide variety of moral, prudential, and epistemic obligations to perform such belief-influencing actions. We can be held responsible for our beliefs in virtue of such influence on our beliefs. Sometimes, we believe responsibly despite having violated such obligations, namely if we are excused, by force, ignorance, or luck. A careful consideration of these excuses teaches us, respectively, that responsible belief entails that we could have failed to have that belief, that responsible belief is in a specific sense radically subjective, and that responsible belief is compatible with its being a matter of luck that we hold that belief.

Responsible belief a theory in ethics and epistemology 1st  Table of contents:

I. Introduction

• I.1. Responsible Belief and Blameworthy Belief
• I.2. Aim of the Book
• I.3. Why We Need an Account of Responsible Belief
• I.4. A New Approach: Intellectual Obligations and Doxastic Excuses
• I.5. Outline

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Chapter 1: Doxastic Responsibility: What Is It?

• 1.1. Introduction
• 1.2. Responsibility and Appraisal
• 1.3. Occurrent, Dormant, and Tacit Belief
• 1.4. Responsible Belief Is Blameless Belief
• 1.5. Conclusion

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Chapter 2: The Problem: Doxastic Control and Doxastic Obligations

• 2.1. Introduction
• 2.2. The Argument from Doxastic Involuntarism
• 2.3. Obligations and Control
• 2.4. First Response: We Have Direct Intentional Doxastic Control
• 2.5. Second Response: We Have Indirect Intentional Doxastic Control
• 2.6. Third Response: We Have Compatibilist Doxastic Control
• 2.7. Fourth Response: Doxastic Obligations Without Any Kind of Control
• 2.8. Conclusion

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Chapter 3: The Solution: Doxastic Influence and Intellectual Obligations

• 3.1. Introduction
• 3.2. Belief-​Influencing Factors
• 3.3. What Are Intellectual Obligations?
• 3.4. What Intellectual Obligations Do We Have?
• 3.5. Six Objections and Replies
• 3.6. Intellectual Obligations and Responsible Belief
• 3.7. Doxastic Excuses: Force, Ignorance, and Luck
• 3.8. Conclusion

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Chapter 4: Responsible Belief Entails the Ability to Believe Otherwise

• 4.1. Introduction
• 4.2. What Is Force?
• 4.3. Force as a Doxastic Excuse
• 4.4. Blameworthy Force
• 4.5. Control over or Influence on Properties of Beliefs
• 4.6. Doxastic Frankfurt-​Style Scenarios
• 4.7. The Doxastic Asymmetry Objection
• 4.8. Conclusion

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Chapter 5: Responsible Belief Is Radically Subjective

• 5.1. Introduction
• 5.2. What Is Ignorance?
• 5.3. Ignorance as a Doxastic Excuse
• 5.4. Ignorance as a Narrow and a Broad Doxastic Excuse
• 5.5. Blameworthy Belief and the Regress Problem
• 5.6. Conclusion

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Chapter 6: Responsible Belief Is Compatible with Doxastic Luck

• 6.1. Introduction
• 6.2. What Is Luck?
• 6.3. Four Varieties of Doxastic Luck and Luck as a Doxastic Excuse
• 6.4. Consequential Luck and Accidentality
• 6.5. The Problem of Doxastic Luck
• 6.6. Conclusion

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