"The question of doxastic responsibility has now become the following questions: first, an internal one, 'Can we describe an institution with purposes and members such that it would be justifiable for it to have a certain practice of holding the members responsible for their doxastic attitudes?' and second, an external one, 'Can we justify the existence of such an institution?' More particularly, can a set of epistemic policies, such as Price's policy P be institutionalized in a social context an element of which is holding people responsible for their doxastic attitudes? Or must they be construed solely as appropriate in the individualistic context of prudential conduct?"
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J. T. Stevenson, "On Doxastic Responsibility", Analysis and Metaphysics: Essays in Honor of R. M. Chisholm (Reidel, 1975), p. 243
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