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10.1 Doxastic Justification 10.1 Doxastic Justification
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10.2 What about Reasoning? 10.2 What about Reasoning?
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10.3 Rational Evidence-Gathering 10.3 Rational Evidence-Gathering
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10 Doxastic Processes and Responsibility
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Published:July 2015
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Abstract
This chapter addresses three further possible problems for a time-slice-centric conception of rationality. The first involves doxastic justification. Perhaps diachronic factors affect the justificatory status of one’s beliefs by determining whether those beliefs are properly based on the evidence. In response, it is argued that doxastic justification is a derivative normative notion, and that nonetheless all the fundamental normative notions are time-slice-centric. The second is that reasoning takes time, so norms for reasoning must be diachronic. But reasoning is merely a self-help tool for cognitively limited agents, and so a theory of ideal rationality need not give norms for reasoning. Third, perhaps there are norms for evidence-gathering which require agents to seek more evidence, and to do so in an unbiased way. But such norms are shown to be superfluous; the rationality of good evidence-gathering practices falls out of more general synchronic norms.
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