The Ethics of Belief

Abstract

In this paper I will address a few of many questions that fall under general heading of the ethics of belief. In section I I will discuss adequacy of what has come to be known as deontological conception of epistemic justification in light of our apparent lack of voluntary control over what we believe. In section II I'll defend an evidentialist view about what we ought to believe. And in section III I will briefly discuss apparent conflicts between epistemic considerations and moral or other considerations.