Ampliative Transmission and Deontological Internalism |
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| Authors: | Luis R.G. Oliveira |
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| Affiliation: | Department of PhilosophyUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst |
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| Abstract: | Deontological internalism is the family of views where justification is a positive deontological appraisal of someone's epistemic agency: S is justified, that is, when S is blameless, praiseworthy, or responsible in believing that p. Brian Weatherson discusses very briefly how a plausible principle of ampliative transmission reveals a worry for versions of deontological internalism formulated in terms of epistemic blame. Weatherson denies, however, that similar principles reveal similar worries for other versions. I disagree. In this article, I argue that plausible principles of ampliative transmission reveal a worry for deontological internalism in general. |
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