Epistemic deontology, epistemic trade-offs, and Kant’s formula of humanity

James Andow

doi:10.1007/s11229-023-04043-3

Epistemic deontology, epistemic trade-offs, and Kant’s formula of humanity

James Andow

Philosophy

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Abstract

An epistemic deontology modelled on Kant’s ethics—in particular the humanity formula of the categorical imperative—is a promising alternative to epistemic consequentialism because it can forbid intuitively impermissible epistemic trade-offs which epistemic consequentialism seems doomed to permit and, most importantly, it can do so in a way that is not ad hoc.

Original language	English
Journal	Synthese
Volume	201
Issue number	47
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-023-04043-3
Publication status	Published - 26 Jan 2023

Keywords

Philosophy
Epistemology
Ethics
Kant
Epistemic Normativity

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