Epistemic Obligations: Truth, Individualism, and the Limits of Belief

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269 Index Adelet, 19–20, 26, 211, 214, 216 Adler, Jonathan, 87, 249 Alston, William, 47–48, 97, 125– 28, 131, 141–43, 172, 246–47, 249, 251, 253–55, 261 Aristotle, 45, 73, 78, 239, 246, 257 Armenians, 18–21, 35, 214, 216 Audi, Robert, 32, 37, 82, 153, 181, 186–90, 197–207, 245, 252, 259–60 Baehr, Jason, 248 basic actions, 117, 130–31, 151, 159–60, 166–67 belief/believe: and reasons, 86–88, 97–100, 116–17, 120–21, 132, 144–52, 156, 159–60, 164–70, 200–1, 204–5, 208, 220–21, 249; see also justification; as disposition, 32, 162–63, 179–90, 207–11, 221; as action, 190–211; basic beliefs, 170–72, 258; by fiat, 154–57, 172–73, 209, 257–58; changing beliefs, 233–40; control of our beliefs, see voluntarism; indirect awareness of, 181–86; language of belief, 175–80 Benedict XVI (pope), 11–13, 16–17, 116, 185, 217, 220 BonJour, Laurence, 250 brainwashing, 233–35 Braithwaite, Richard B., 180, 259 Browning, Christopher, 252 Bryant, Roy, 9, 70–71 Chisholm, Roderick, 28, 33, 60, 79, 91–92, 100, 116, 140–41, 233, 244–47, 250, 252, 255, 260–61 Classen, H. G., 258 Clifford, William, 30–31, 33, 58, 61–63, 72–73, 80–83, 87, 91–93, 98, 127, 217–18, 225, 245, 247, 249–50, 253 conversational stance, 228–30 Degenhardt, Michael, 23, 244, 247 270 Epistemic Obligations Dennett, Daniel, 258 Descartes, René, 116, 252, 255, 258 disposition to believe, 32, 134, 153, 165, 186–90, 193 doxastic requirement, 2 education, 21–25, 127, 214, 216, 231–32, 239–40 Ells, David, 4–5, 243 Engle, Pascal, 195–96, 260 epistemic accountability, 223–33 epistemic excellence, 43–46, 49, 74–76, 79–82, 95–96, 100, 111–13, 124, 130, 205, 215–16, 220, 232, 240–41, 246, 249, 251, 260 epistemic obligations: and choice, see voluntarism; and interest, 20–22, 34–36, 94–97, 216; defined, 29–49; grounded in intrinsic value, 51–53; grounded in moral obligation, 59–74, 81–83; grounded in prudence, 53–59, 81–83; grounded in virtue, 74–83 epistemic restraints, 233–35 epistemic virtue (intellectual virtue): see virtue Evans, J. L., 255 evidence, underdetermination of, 118, 141–42, 257 evidentialism, 31, 53, 57, 87 externalist: see justification Feldman, Richard, 32, 34–36, 54, 56–57, 64–68, 70, 92–99, 122–24, 129, 245, 247–48, 250–51, 253–54, 256 fiatism: see belief freedom of action, 157–60, 168, 208, 221–23 Geach, Peter, 260 God, 4–9, 26, 34, 81, 93–94, 116, 126–27, 193, 210, 214, 219, 237, 243–44 Goggans, Phil, 252 Goldman, Alvin, 101–7, 251 Govier, Trudy, 58, 155–56, 247, 256–57 Grant, Brian, 254, 258 Greco, John, 88, 111, 250, 252 Haack, Susan, 63, 72, 247–48 Hall, Richard, 245, 251 Hearst, Patty, 117, 252 Holocaust, 11, 15, 82, 95, 129, 195, 214, 217, 220, 224, 237–38, 243–44 Huie, Bradford, 9, 243 Hume, David, 6, 258 Hunter, Edward, 234 Hurst, Patty, 117, 243 internalist: see justification intuition, 169–70; moral, 71, 104–5, 227 James, William, 30–31, 36, 116, 118, 244, 252–53 Johnson, Charles, 245, 251 Jordan, Jeff, 247 justification of belief: externalist conceptions, 47–48, 101–2, 112, 126; internalist conceptions, 88–92, 250; objective/ subjective, 38, 47, 81–82, 88–90, 94–96, 99, 101–12, 147–48, 220, 227–28, 245, 254; on a virtue ethic, 76–78 Kant, Immanuel, 42, 127 King, Martin Luther, Jr., 262 Konzi, 65–66, 248 Kvanvig, Jonathan, 247, 249, 260 Lenman, James, 247 Lifton, Robert, 234, 261 Locke, John, 252–53 magician, 120–21, 134–35, 149–50, 197, 209 Index 271 Marcus, Ruth, 259 Meeker, Kevin, 245 Meiland, Jack, 52–57, 117–18, 140–41, 195, 198–99, 209, 246–47, 252 Merkel, Chancellor Angela, 11, 116 Milam, J. W., 9–10, 14, 17, 27, 38, 63, 82, 89, 96, 104–7, 211, 214, 217, 222, 225–28, 235, 237 Mill, John Stuart, 169, 258 Montmarquet, James, 248, 251–52 moral accountability, 5, 12, 25, 27–28, 59–63, 68–69, 81, 89, 160, 208–9, 222–23, 235, 238 moral obligations, 5, 37–41, 58–74, 123–24, 157, 215, 222, 245 moral virtue: see virtue Morgenthau, Henry, 245 Moser, Paul, 260 Naylor, Margery, 257 Neumann, Dale, Leilani, and Kara, 4–9, 27...