A Logical Analysis of Freedom of Thought.

This paper studies the logical form and properties of one prominent category of epistemic rights: the freedom of thought and belief. We do so in the broadly Hohfeldian formalization of rights developed by [Markovich, 2020,Markovich, 2019], but extended with tools from doxastic logic. The resulting analysis reveals subtle differences in the way freedom of thought can be analyzed, and how these differences affect the logical properties of this doxastic right and the normative positions it incorporates.