"The consequential conception of doxastic responsibility": Lektüreworkshop mit Prof. Dr. Anne Meylan (Universität Basel)

In dieser Spezialsitzung der SWIP Bern Lesegruppe werden wir gemeinsam mit Prof. Dr. Anne Meylan (Universität Basel) einen Lektüreworkshop zu ihrem Artikel "The consequential conception of doxastic responsibility" durchführen. Bitte anmelden unter swip.switzerland@gmail.com, um den Text zu erhalten! Abstract: "We are occasionally responsible for our beliefs. But is this doxastic responsibility analogous to any non-attitudinal form of responsibility? What I shall call the consequential conception of doxastic responsibility holds that the kind of responsibility that we have for our beliefs is indeed analogous to the kind of responsibility that we have for the consequences of our actions. This article does two things, both with the aim of defending this somewhat unsophisticated but intuitive view of doxastic responsibility. First, it emphasizes the advantage of preserving, as the consequential conception does, the analogy with the nonattitudinal realm, i.e. with the realm of actions and their consequences. Second, this paper regiments the most important objections to the consequential conception and answers them. The upshot is that there are no serious drawbacks to the consequential conception. There is, therefore, no reason not to favour it over accounts of doxastic responsibility that do not preserve the analogy with the non-attitudinal realm (e.g. Hieronymi 2008, 2009; McHugh 2014, 2015)."