Responsibility for Rationality

Foundations of an Ethics of Mind

Sebastian Schmidt (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

222 Seiten

2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-46717-7 (ISBN)

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This book argues that we are directly responsible for our attitudes by considering how we blame each other for being irrational. It thereby connects the most recent research on responsibility and rationality in a unifying dialectic.

How can we be responsible for our attitudes if we cannot normally choose what we believe, desire, feel, and intend? This problem has received much attention during the last decades, both in epistemology and ethics. Yet its connections to discussions about reasons and rationality have been largely overlooked. This book develops the foundations of an ethics of mind by investigating the responsibility that is presupposed by the requirements of rationality that govern our attitudes. It has five main goals. First, it reinterprets the problem of responsibility for attitudes as a problem about the normativity of rationality. Second, it connects substantive and structural rationality by drawing on debates about responsibility. Third, it supports recent accounts of the normativity of rationality by explicitly defending the view that epistemic reasons and other ‘right-kind’ reasons are genuine normative reasons. Fourth, it breaks the stalemate between rationalist and voluntarist accounts of mental responsibility by proposing a hybrid view. Finally, it argues that being irrational can warrant moral blame, thus revealing an unnoticed normative force of rational requirements.

Responsibility for Rationality is an original and essential resource for scholars and advanced students interested in connecting strands of normative theory within epistemology, metaethics, and moral psychology.

Sebastian Schmidt is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Zurich Epistemology Group on Rationality (ZEGRa) at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. His work has appeared in journals such as Grazer Philosophische Studien, Erkenntnis, Philosophical Studies, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, and Philosophical Issues. He is the co-editor, with Gerhard Ernst, of The Ethics of Belief and Beyond: Understanding Mental Normativity (Routledge, 2020). He is also Research Associate at the African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science (ACEPS) at the University of Johannesburg.

Part 1: The Problem of Mental Responsibility 1. Introduction 2. Mental Responsibility 3. Rationality and Reasons Part 2: The Normativity of Epistemic Rationality 4. A Neglected Challenge for the Normativity of Epistemic Rationality 5. Blameworthiness for Epistemic Irrationality Part 3: Foundations of an Ethics of Mind 6. A Hybrid Account of Mental Responsibility 7. Moralizing Rationality 8. Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	02.11.2024
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in Epistemology
Zusatzinfo	2 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
ISBN-10	1-032-46717-7 / 1032467177
ISBN-13	978-1-032-46717-7 / 9781032467177
Zustand	Neuware