According to many philosophers there are only pro tanto oughts to believe relative to a standard of assessment: there are epistemic oughts to believe, moral oughts to believe, prudential oughts to believe etc. But there are no oughts to believe simpliciter. Many of the same philosophers who hold this view, also hold that ought to believe is to be understood deontologically – such that if S violates such an ought without excuse, S is blameworthy for doing so. I here argue that on a deontological understanding of ought to believe there must be ought to believe simpliciter and that it is the violation of this ought that determines whether we are to blame for our beliefs
In this paper, we claim that, if you justifiably believe that you ought to perform some act, it foll...
We are no less judgmental about what others ought to believe than we are about what others ought to ...
There is a puzzle about Hume's is-ought gap involving an epistemic `ought'. From the premise `Snow ...
There is a way of talking about epistemic justification that involves the notion of our being subjec...
William Alston’s argument against epistemological deontologism rests upon two key premises: first, t...
For decades, philosophers have displayed an interest in what it is to have an epistemically justifie...
There are many different oughts. There is a moral ought, a prudential ought, an epistemic ought, the...
Scepticism about ought simpliciter is the view that there is no such thing as what one ought simplic...
William Alston has argued that the so-called deontological conception of epistemic justification, on...
What ought I to do? A lot of things, and when I look at it closely, too many things. Too many things...
Whether responsibility for actions and omissions requires the ability to do otherwise is an importan...
According to the deontological conception of epistemic justification, a belief is justified when it ...
To be a doxastic deontologist is to claim that there is such a thing as an ethics of belief (or of o...
Scepticism about ought simpliciter is the view that there is no such thing as what one ought simplic...
The idea that we can properly be held responsible for what we believe underlies large stretches of o...
In this paper, we claim that, if you justifiably believe that you ought to perform some act, it foll...
We are no less judgmental about what others ought to believe than we are about what others ought to ...
There is a puzzle about Hume's is-ought gap involving an epistemic `ought'. From the premise `Snow ...
There is a way of talking about epistemic justification that involves the notion of our being subjec...
William Alston’s argument against epistemological deontologism rests upon two key premises: first, t...
For decades, philosophers have displayed an interest in what it is to have an epistemically justifie...
There are many different oughts. There is a moral ought, a prudential ought, an epistemic ought, the...
Scepticism about ought simpliciter is the view that there is no such thing as what one ought simplic...
William Alston has argued that the so-called deontological conception of epistemic justification, on...
What ought I to do? A lot of things, and when I look at it closely, too many things. Too many things...
Whether responsibility for actions and omissions requires the ability to do otherwise is an importan...
According to the deontological conception of epistemic justification, a belief is justified when it ...
To be a doxastic deontologist is to claim that there is such a thing as an ethics of belief (or of o...
Scepticism about ought simpliciter is the view that there is no such thing as what one ought simplic...
The idea that we can properly be held responsible for what we believe underlies large stretches of o...
In this paper, we claim that, if you justifiably believe that you ought to perform some act, it foll...
We are no less judgmental about what others ought to believe than we are about what others ought to ...
There is a puzzle about Hume's is-ought gap involving an epistemic `ought'. From the premise `Snow ...