Cognitive integration and the ownership of belief: Response to Bernecker

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 76 (1):173–184 (2008)
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This paper responds to Sven Bernecker’s argument that agent reliabilism cannot accommodate internalist intuitions about clarvoyance cases. In section 1 we clarify a version of agent reliabilism and Bernecker’s objections against it. In section 2 we say more about how the notion of cognitive integration helps to adjudicate clairvoyance cases and other proposed counterexamples to reliabilism. The central idea is that cognitive integration underwrites a kind of belief ownership, which in turn underwrites the sort of responsibility for belief required for subjective justification. In section 3 we say more about what cognitive integration amounts to, drawing on some recent accounts of desire ownership from the literature on autonomy and moral responsibility.

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original Daniel Breyer, John Greco (2008) "Cognitive Integration and the Ownership of Belief: Response to Bernecker". Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 76(1):173-184

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