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Ethical and Epistemic Egoism and the Ideal of Autonomy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2012

Linda Zagzebski
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Abstract

In this paper I distinguish three degrees of epistemic egoism, each of which has an ethical analogue, and I argue that all three are incoherent. Since epistemic autonomy is frequently identified with one of these forms of epistemic egoism, it follows that epistemic autonomy as commonly understood is incoherent. I end with a brief discussion of the idea of moral autonomy and suggest that its component of epistemic autonomy in the realm of the moral is problematic.

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Research Article
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Episteme , Volume 4 , Issue 3 , October 2007 , pp. 252 - 263
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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