ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates the philosophical literature at the intersection by focusing on the concept of epistemic responsibility. The term “epistemic responsibility” is a polysemic phrase used in debates surrounding justification, knowledge, epistemic virtue, and epistemic injustice. Assessments of epistemic responsibility can also be made of an agent’s character, which connects discussions of epistemic justification to the literature on virtue epistemology. Assessments of epistemic praiseworthiness or blameworthiness are often seen as analogous to our practices of morally praising and blaming actions. Epistemic responsibility in this sense involves cultivating epistemic virtues and just epistemic communities that enable us to know and understand. Finally, moving from the narrow realm of trust in science to broader questions about trust in general, an important relationship between trust and epistemic responsibility is found in the epistemology of trustworthiness.
