Intellectual responsibility (also known as epistemic responsibility) is a philosophical concept related to that of
epistemic justification
Justification (also called epistemic justification) is the property of belief that qualifies it as knowledge rather than mere opinion. Epistemology is the study of reasons that someone holds a rationally admissible belief (although the term is a ...
. According to Frederick F. Schmitt, "the conception of justified belief as epistemically responsible belief has been endorsed by a number of philosophers, including
Roderick Chisholm (1977),
Hilary Kornblith
Hilary Kornblith is an American philosopher. He is a professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and one of contemporary epistemology's most prominent proponents of naturalized epistemology.
Biography
Kornblith received his ...
(1983), and
Lorraine Code (1983)."
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Responsibility of intellectuals
A separate concept was introduced by the linguist and public intellectual
Noam Chomsky in an essay published as a special supplement by ''
The New York Review of Books'' on 23 February 1967, entitled "
The Responsibility of Intellectuals "The Responsibility of Intellectuals" is an essay by the American academic Noam Chomsky which was published as a special supplement by ''The New York Review of Books'' on 23 February 1967.
Content
The article was written during the then-ongoing V ...
". Chomsky argues that
intellectuals should make themselves responsible for searching for the
truth and the exposing of lies.
Notes
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External links
The Responsibility of Intellectuals- Noam Chomsky's essay, referred to above
Concepts in epistemology
Ethical principles
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