ABSTRACT
The normativity of epistemic rationality can seem puzzling. How can evidence provide us, all by itself, with normative reasons for belief? This chapter is devoted to clarifying this challenge for the normativity of epistemic rationality, which arises from the recent literature on instrumentalism and pragmatism about reasons for belief. The challenge comes in two shapes: the problem of clutter avoidance and conflicts between epistemic and practical reasons. It is argued that both shapes heavily rely on intuitions about blameworthiness. The arising challenge consists in making the normativity of right-kind reasons intelligible: we have to think more about responsibility for rationality, and in particular about blameworthiness for irrational attitudes.
