Deontology and Epistemic Justification: Ethics and Epistemology

Authors: Marta Reolon V

DOI: 10.23880/Phij-16000185

Volume 4, Issue 2

Abstract

The deontological notion of epistemic justification arises from a parallel drawn between ethics and epistemology through the use of a deontological vocabulary for the assessment of an epistemic status of our beliefs. John Locke emerges as one of his most illustrious representatives. Relationship between justification and normativity. ‘Epistemic duties’ to explain the concept of ‘epistemic justification’. Epistemic concepts are not reducible to ethical concepts. After this debate, the connection established between Ethics and Epistemology has been merely analog.

Keywords: Epistemology; Deontological; Ethics

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