Epistemic rationality and epistemic normativity - 102 (1st)

This volume answers two important questions about the issue of normativity in epistemology: Why are epistemic reasons evidential and what makes epistemic reasons and rationality normative?

Bondy's argument proceeds on the assumption that epistemic rationality goes hand in hand with basing beliefs on good evidence.

The opening chapters defend a mental-state ontology of reasons, a deflationary account of how kinds of reasons are distinguished, and a deliberative guidance constraint on normative reasons.

They also argue in favour of doxastic voluntarism - the view that beliefs are subject to our direct voluntary control - and embrace the controversial view that voluntarism bears directly on the question of what kinds of things count as reasons for believing.