NDLI: A defence of epistemic responsibility: why laziness and ignorance are bad after all

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Puddifoot, Katherine
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	It has been suggested, by Michael Bishop, that empirical evidence on human reasoning poses a threat to the internalist account of epistemic responsibility, which he takes to associate being epistemically responsible with coherence, evidence-fitting and reasons-responsiveness. Bishop claims that the empirical data challenges the importance of meeting these criteria by emphasising how it is possible to obtain true beliefs by diverging from them. He suggests that the internalist conception of responsibility should be replaced by one that properly reflects how we can reliably obtain true beliefs. In this paper I defend the internalist account by arguing that Bishop has misinterpreted the relevance of the empirical evidence to the philosophical theory. I argue that the empirical data actually provides support for the idea that, if we want to obtain true beliefs by being responsible, we should aim to meet the criteria that internalists associate with epistemic responsibility.
Starting Page	3297
Ending Page	3309
Page Count	13
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00397857
Journal	Synthese
Volume Number	191
Issue Number	14
e-ISSN	15730964
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2014-03-27
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Epistemic responsibility Human reasoning Heuristics and biases Actuarial prediction rules Evidence Philosophy of Science Epistemology Logic Philosophy of Language Metaphysics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy Social Sciences

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