Epistemological Backgrounds of Ethic of Belief

Epistemology is a science dealing with knowledge in terms of nature, truth and justification of beliefs. Among the theories of justification is the theory of ethic of belief according to which there are many requirements in the process of believing and acquiring knowledge that any failure in regard to them may give rise to not only epistemic error but ethical sin as well. It is accordingly a moral-epistemological problem. To maintain the ethic of belief is to adopt principles in epistemology which there is no room for such claim if they are rejected. This article deals with some of the most important epistemic backgrounds of ethic of belief and its rival theories including evidentialism, deontology, internalism and volitionism.