Normativity and Control

by David Owens

Book Overview

Do we control what we believe? Are we responsible for what we believe? These two questions are connected: the kind of responsibility we have for our beliefs depends on the form of control that we have over them. For a number of years David Owens has investigated what form of control we must have over something in order to be held to the norms governing that thing, and has argued that belief, intention and action each require a different type of control...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198851693
• ISBN13: 9780198851691
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"