Some metaphysical implications of a credible ethics of belief

Nikolaj Nottelmann

Rik Peels

pp. 230-250

in: Nikolaj Nottelmann (ed), New essays on belief, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

Abstract

The central purpose of this chapter is to discuss some important implications of any credible ethics of belief for the nature of belief. By an "ethics of belief", we mean an account of what it is to form and hold one's beliefs responsibly, praiseworthily, or blameworthily. Thus, the aim is to lay out some implications of such an ethics of belief for the metaphysics of belief.