Abstract
Abstract
This chapter considers two questions. When are your reason-giving uses of argument intellectually honesty? When do they have intellectual integrity? The chapter’s responses draw on essential facets of the reason-giving uses of arguments discussed in earlier chapters. The response to the first question runs as follows. Your reason-giving use of an argument is intellectually honest only if you are being truthful in stating your argument. Drawing on Williams, the chapter argues that if you are truthful in stating your argument, then you believe what you claim and you have taken care to ensure the accuracy of what you claim. The response to the second question is that your intellectually honest reason-giving use of an argument displays intellectual integrity only if the premises you advance are reasons that sustain your believing the conclusion as a manifestation of your intellectual autonomy, i.e., as a manifestation of your properly thinking for yourself.