A01=David Owens
Agnostic
Author_David Owens
Category=NH
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Cognitive Inertia
Conclusive Grounds
control
Doxastic Voluntarism
epistemic
Epistemic Control
Epistemic Norms
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Evidential Considerations
Follow
higher
Higher Order Judgement
Inconclusive Evidence
Inductive Evidence
Intrinsic Authority
judgement
juridical
Juridical Theory
Justified Belief
Memory Beliefs
motivation
Non-evidential Considerations
Non-evidential Factors
Non-reflective Awareness
norm
order
Practical Judgement
Prima Facie Authority
probative
Probative Force
Reflective Control
Reflective Motivation
theory
Vice Versa
Wo
Product details
- ISBN 9780415223881
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 25 May 2000
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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We call beliefs reasonable or unreasonable, justified or unjustified. What does this imply about belief? Does this imply that we are responsible for our beliefs and that we should be blamed for our unreasonable convictions? Or does it imply that we are in control of our beliefs and that what we believe is up to us? Reason Without Freedom argues that the major problems of epistemology have their roots in concerns about our control over and responsibility for belief. David Owens focuses on the arguments of Descartes, Locke and Hume - the founders of epistemology - and presents a critical discussion of the current trends in contemporary epistemology. He proposes that the problems we confront today - scepticism, the analysis of knowlege, and debates on epistemic justification - can be tackled only once we have understood the moral psychology of belief. This can be resolved when we realise that our responsibility for beliefs is profoundly different from our rationality and agency, and that memory and testimony can preserve justified belief without preserving the evidence which might be used to justify it. Reason Without Freedom should be of value to those interested in contemporary epistemology, philosophy of mind and action, ethics, and the history of 17th and 18th century.
David Owens is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sheffield.
