Sebastian Schmidt is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Philosophy at the University of Zurich at the chair for Theoretical Philosophy (Anne Meylan). His research in epistemology and metaethics focusses on responsibility and reasons for attitudes.

Gerhard Ernst holds a chair for Philosophy at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany). Since 2018 he is president of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Philosophie (German Society for Philosophy). His main research areas are epistemology and metaethics. His works include Das Problem des Wissens (The Problem of Knowledge) (2002) and Die Objektivität der Moral (The Objectivity of Morality) (2008).

This volume provides a framework for approaching and understanding mental normativity. It presents cutting-edge research on the ethics of belief as well as innovative research beyond the normativity of belief-and towards an ethics of mind.

1. Introduction: Towards an Ethics of Mind

Sebastian Schmidt

Part I: New Perspectives on Belief Normativity

A. Doxastic Agency and Responsibility

2. Implications of the Debate on Doxastic Voluntarism for W. K. Clifford's Ethics of Belief

Martina Lindner

3. Believing as We Ought and the Democratic Route to Knowledge

Matthew Chrisman

4. Responsibility for Doxastic Strength Grounds Responsibility for Belief

Benoit Gaultier

B. Reasons for Belief

5. Relationships and Reasons for Belief

Lindsay Crawford

6. Instrumental Reasons for Belief: Elliptical Talk and Elusive Properties

Asbjørn Steglich-Petersen and Mattias Skipper

7. Suspension of Judgment, Rationality's Competition, and the Reach of the Epistemic

Errol Lord

Part II: Facets of an Ethics of Mind

A. Responsibility, Reasons, and Rationality

8. Responsibility for Attitudes, Object-Given Reasons, and Blame

Sebastian Schmidt

9. Two Kinds of Rationality

Gerhard Ernst

B. The Ethics of Blame, Fear, Decision, Passing Thought, and Phantasy

10. The Ethics of Blame: A Primer

D. Justin Coates

11. How Safe Should We Feel? The Ethics of Fear in the Public Sphere

Sabine A. Döring

12. Determining the Future

Matthew Soteriou

13. Silence and Salience: On Being Judgmental

Neal A. Tognazzini

14. The Value of a Free and Wandering Mind

Miriam Schleifer McCormick