An Essay from The Conflict of Mind
Epistemic (Ir)responsibility
On W.K. Clifford, Pluralism, and the Morality of Philosophy

In his famous essay “The Ethics of Belief,” W.K. Clifford argued that if a person allowed others to use a car that the owner knew was unsafe, even if the people arrived at their destination successfully and unharmed, the owner of the vehicle would still be guilty of…