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Rik Peels, Naomi Kloosterboer, Chris Ranalli - Responsibility for Extreme Beliefs and Behaviors, Inbunden

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Responsibility for Extreme Beliefs and Behaviors

Individual, Group, and Structural Factors

Av Rik Peels, Naomi Kloosterboer, Chris Ranalli

Del i serien Extreme Belief and Behavior Series

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Written by global, multidisciplinary experts, Responsibility for Extreme Beliefs and Behaviors explores the relation between responsibility and extreme beliefs and behaviors. The book is divided into three parts. The first part examines the issue of who or what is responsible, such as individuals, groups, the community, or even structural factors. It also addresses how individual responsibility relates to group responsibility. The second part concerns agency and various kinds of responsibility. It studies to what extent we can ascribe agency, both moral and epistemic, to extremists, and explores how epistemic agency depends on cognitive and affective capacities, self-knowledge, and intellectual self-trust, self-esteem, and self-respect. Moreover, it examines which environments foster extreme beliefs and behaviors and whether extremists and terrorists can be described as evil and how that bears on responsibility. The third and final part investigates when responsibility attributions are appropriate. It looks at various excusing and exculpating conditions of individual or group responsibility for extreme beliefs. It studies indoctrination and how much room it leaves for responsibility, and considers factors such as experiencing peer pressure, being in an epistemic bubble or echo chamber, and living in a society dealing with fake news and propaganda, and to what extent such factors can provide an excuse. In doing so, it takes not only the legal but equally the moral and epistemic dimensions of responsibility into account and how these relate to one another.
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Rik Peels holds a university research chair in analytic and interdisciplinary philosophy of religion at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He is also a senior research associate at the African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. His research interests are the ethics of belief, ignorance, scientism, fundamentalism, and extremism. He leads the Extreme Beliefs research group (www.extremebeliefs.com), and he is a member of the Adapt Academy, which studies how societies can better adapt to crises.Naomi Kloosterboer is an independent researcher and founder of Radicaal Luisteren (Radical Listening; www.radicaalluisteren.nl). She was a postdoc at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands as part of the ERC-funded project Extreme Beliefs: The Epistemology and Ethics of Fundamentalism. Her research connects (feminist) epistemology, ethics, and moralpsychology. Her current work focuses on practices of listening, such as the role listening should play in fostering democratic practices and diminishing polarization. She also works on issues concerning values, responsibility, and self-knowledge.Chris Ranalli is assistant professor of philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He works in epistemology and at the intersection of philosophy of mind and value theory. His current research examines the social, political, and ethical dimensions of belief, especially skepticism, doubt, and the value of knowledge. He is the author of The Philosophy of Indoctrination: Epistemology, Ethics, and Politics (2024). He earned his PhD in philosophy from the University of Edinburgh and has held research positions at the University of Cologne and UNAM in Mexico City.

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