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David Owens

Disciplines:
ethics
epistemology
philosophy of action

Summary

British philosopher who has worked on the normativity of belief, the ethics of promising and commitment, and the relationship between epistemic and practical norms.

Core Contribution

Reason Without Freedom: belief is not under voluntary control but is still normatively assessable — the normativity of belief is sui generis and cannot be reduced to practical normativity. Shaping the Normative Landscape: authority and the ethics of promising.

Notable Works & Achievements

Reason Without Freedom

Shaping the Normative Landscape

Historical Influences

Bernard Williams T.M. Scanlon

Intellectual Lineage

Analytic Philosophy

Contemporaries & Peers

Ralph Wedgwood

Minds Influenced

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Intellectual Posterity

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