Epistemic Blame and the New Evil Demon Problem
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چکیده
The New Evil Demon Problem presents a serious challenge to externalist theories of epistemic justification. In recent years, externalists have developed number strategies for responding the problem. A popular line response involves distinguishing between belief’s being epistemically justified and subject’s blameless holding it. apparently problematic intuitions elicits, proponents this claim, track fact that deceived subject is believing as she does, not so believing. This general strategy—which I call “unjustified-but-blameless maneuver”—is motivated, in part, by assumption distinction justification blamelessness merely an extension familiar moral blamelessness. paper, consider three ways drawing from domain: first terms connection with reactive attitudes, second wrongness wronging, third reasons-responsiveness. All distinction, argue, make it difficult see how analogous domain could help explain away which underwrite Problem. Motivating unjustified-but-blameless maneuver, conclude, much less straightforward task than its tend assume.
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عنوان ژورنال: Philosophical Studies
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['1573-0883', '0031-8116']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-021-01774-2