In Defense of Moral Evidentialism

Logos and Episteme 6 (4):405-427 (2015)
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This paper is a defense of moral evidentialism, the view that we have a moral obligation to form the doxastic attitude that is best supported by our evidence. I will argue that two popular arguments against moral evidentialism are weak. I will also argue that our commitments to the moral evaluation of actions require us to take doxastic obligations seriously.

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10.5840/logos-episteme20156433

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