Normativity and Control

Do we control what we believe? Are we responsible for what we believe? In a series of ten essays David Owens explores various different forms of control we might have over belief, and the different forms of responsibility these forms of control generate.

List of contents

• Introduction


• Normativity: Epistemic and Practical


• 1: Epistemic Akrasia


• 2: Does Belief Have an Aim?


• 3: Deliberation and the First Person


• 4: Value and Epistemic Normativity


• Scepticism


• 5: Scepticisms: Descartes and Hume


• 6: Descartes's Use of Doubt


• Practical Freedom


• 7: Freedom and Practical Judgement


• 8: Habitual Agency


• Testimony


• 9: Testimony and Assertion


• 10: Human Testimony

About the author

David Owens is Professor of Philosophy at King's College London. He is the author of Shaping the Normative Landscape (Oxford 2012), Reason Without Freedom (Routledge 2000), and Causes and Coincidences (Cambridge 1992).

Summary

Do we control what we believe? Are we responsible for what we believe? In a series of ten essays David Owens explores various different forms of control we might have over belief, and the different forms of responsibility these forms of control generate.

Product details

• Authors: David Owens, David (Professor of Philosophy Owens, Owens David
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9780198713234
• ISBN: 978-0-19-871323-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge