Friendship and the grades of doxastic partiality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20143041 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hamid Vahid (0000-0001-9064-0877, School of Analytic Philosophy Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM) Tehran Iran, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 90 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 122-133 |
| Publication date | 2024-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theoria (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0040-5825 • E-ISSN: 1755-2567 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/theo.12514 |
| OpenAlex | W4392786929 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 18 |
It has been claimed that friendship not only involves partial treatment of one's friends but that it also involves some degree of doxastic partiality towards them. Taking these claims as their starting points, some philosophers have argued that friendship not only involves such partiality but that this is also what is normatively required. This gives rise to the possibility of conflict between the demands of friendship on the one hand and the demands of epistemic norms on the other. In this paper, I consider some of the responses to this claim and show why they fail. I distinguish between different grades of doxastic partiality and explain why, although low grades of doxastic partiality fall within the bounds of the standard epistemic norm, the higher grades might infringe such norms. I conclude with an explanation of a fundamental intuition that seems to lie at the heart of the thesis of epistemic partiality
Doxastic logic · Epistemology · Friendship · Advanced Algebra and Logic · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
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