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Record Nr.

UNINA9910746295503321

Autore

Heikes Deborah K

Titolo

Epistemic Responsibility for Undesirable Beliefs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023

©2023

ISBN

3-031-41858-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (237 pages)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- 1: Epistemic Responsibility: An Overview -- 1.1  The Trouble with "Facts" -- 1.2  How Epistemology Undermines Responsibility -- 1.3  Exculpatory Ignorance -- 1.4  The Problem of Culpability -- 1.5  Three Questions -- References -- 2: What Is Undesirable Belief? -- 2.1  Truth and Undesirability -- 2.2  Whose Undesirability? -- 2.3  Finding Fact in the Midst of Conflicting Value -- 2.4  Transformational Criticism and Undesirability -- 2.5  The Challenge of Intellectual Authority -- 2.6  Undesirable Belief and Exculpatory Reasons -- 2.7  Taking Social Acceptability Seriously -- References -- 3: Can There Be Epistemic Responsibility? -- 3.1  Epistemic Voluntarism? Belief as Habits of Action -- 3.2  The Intractability of Undesirability -- 3.3  Salvaging Epistemic Responsibility -- 3.4  Doxastic Intentions and Epistemic Responsibility -- 3.5  Doxastic Influence and Responsibility -- 3.6  Epistemic Humility/Epistemic Hubris -- 3.7  Epistemic Communities and the Possibility of Voluntarism -- 3.8  Joint Epistemic Responsibility -- References -- 4: What About the Exculpatory Effects of Ignorance? -- 4.1  Varieties of Ignorance and Exculpation -- 4.2  Immersion and Responsibility Within Socially Constructed Ignorance -- 4.3  Deliberate Ignorance and Responsibility -- 4.4  Anti-individualism and Epistemic Heroism -- 4.5  Holding Out for Epistemic Heroes -- 4.6  When Should We Know? -- 4.7  Whose Ignorance? Whose Responsibility? -- References -- 5: It's Not My Fault -- 5.1  Epistemic Individualism Be Damned -- 5.2  Epistemic Dependence and Individual



Responsibility -- 5.3  Epistemic Bubbles, Echo Chambers, and Becoming a Cognitive Newborn -- 5.4  It May Really Not Be My Fault -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index.