Dialogue: The Canadian Philosophical Review 46 (1):115-136 (2007)
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An epistemic duty would be a duty to believe, disbelieve, or withhold judgment from a proposition, and it would be grounded in purely evidential or epistemic considerations. If I promise to believe it is raining, my duty to believe is not epistemic. If my evidence is so good that, in light of it alone, I ought to believe it is raining, then my duty to believe supposedly is epistemic. I offer a new argument for the claim that there are no epistemic duties. Though people do sometimes have duties to believe, disbelieve, or withhold judgment from propositions, those duties are never grounded in purely epistemic considerations
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Keywords | rationality epistemology epistemic duty deontology epistemic normativity evidentialism |
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DOI | 10.1017/S001221730000158X |
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