Responsibility for Rationality

This book argues that we are directly responsible for our attitudes by considering how we blame each other for being irrational. It thereby connects the most recent research on responsibility and rationality in a unifying dialectic.

Sebastian Schmidt is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Zurich Epistemology Group on Rationality (ZEGRa) at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. His work has appeared in journals such as Grazer Philosophische Studien, Erkenntnis, Philosophical Studies, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, and Philosophical Issues. He is the cöeditor, with Gerhard Ernst, of The Ethics of Belief and Beyond: Understanding Mental Normativity (Routledge, 2020). He is also a Research Associate at the African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science (ACEPS), University of Johannesburg.

Part 1: The Problem of Mental Responsibility 1. Introduction 2. Mental Responsibility 3. Rationality and Reasons Part 2: The Normativity of Epistemic Rationality 4. A Neglected Challenge for the Normativity of Epistemic Rationality 5. Blameworthiness for Epistemic Irrationality Part 3: Foundations of an Ethics of Mind 6. A Hybrid Account of Mental Responsibility 7. Moralizing Rationality 8. Conclusion