Sebastian Schmidt is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Philosophy at the University of Zurich at the chair for Theoretical Philosophy (Anne Meylan). His research in epistemology and metaethics focusses on responsibility and reasons for attitudes.Gerhard Ernst holds a chair for Philosophy at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany). Since 2018 he is president of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Philosophie (German Society for Philosophy). His main research areas are epistemology and metaethics. His works include Das Problem des Wissens (The Problem of Knowledge) (2002) and Die Objektivität der Moral (The Objectivity of Morality) (2008).

• 1. Introduction: Towards an Ethics of MindSebastian SchmidtPart I: New Perspectives on Belief NormativityA. Doxastic Agency and Responsibility2. Implications of the Debate on Doxastic Voluntarism for W. K. Clifford’s Ethics of BeliefMartina Lindner3. Believing as We Ought and the Democratic Route to KnowledgeMatthew Chrisman4. Responsibility for Doxastic Strength Grounds Responsibility for BeliefBenoit GaultierB. Reasons for Belief5. Relationships and Reasons for BeliefLindsay Crawford6. Instrumental Reasons for Belief: Elliptical Talk and Elusive PropertiesAsbjørn Steglich-Petersen and Mattias Skipper7. Suspension of Judgment, Rationality’s Competition, and the Reach of the EpistemicErrol LordPart II: Facets of an Ethics of MindA. Responsibility, Reasons, and Rationality8. Responsibility for Attitudes, Object-Given Reasons, and BlameSebastian Schmidt9. Two Kinds of RationalityGerhard ErnstB. The Ethics of Blame, Fear, Decision, Passing Thought, and Phantasy10. The Ethics of Blame: A PrimerD. Justin Coates11. How Safe Should We Feel? The Ethics of Fear in the Public SphereSabine A. Döring12. Determining the FutureMatthew Soteriou13. Silence and Salience: On Being JudgmentalNeal A. Tognazzini14. The Value of a Free and Wandering MindMiriam Schleifer McCormick

"Specialists in the ethics of action and the nature of practical reason now routinely interact with specialists in epistemology and the normativity of belief to address broader issues in the normativity of all kinds of mental states. As both fields learn from another, new questions and new avenues for inquiry come into view. This is a welcome collection of new essays by first-rate philosophers in the emerging field of mental normativity." – Peter J. Graham, University of California, Riverside, USA