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Dilemmic Epistemology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This article argues that there can be epistemic dilemmas: situations in which one faces conflicting epistemic requirements with the result that whatever one does, one is doomed to do wrong from the epistemic point of view.
Hughes, Nick
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Atheism and Agatheism in the Global Ethical Discourse: Reply to Millican and Thornhill-Miller [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Peter Millican and Branden Thornhill-Miller have recently argued that contradictions between different religious belief systems, in conjunction with the host of defeaters based on empirical research concerning alleged sources of ...
Salamon, Janusz
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Religious Pluralism and the Buridan's Ass Paradox [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The paradox of ’Buridan’s ass’ involves an animal facing two equally adequate and attractive alternatives, such as would happen were a hungry ass to confront two bales of hay that are equal in all respects relevant to the ass’s hunger. Of course, the ass
Kvanvig, Jonathan L.
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Resolving Religious Disagreements [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Resolving religious disagreements is difficult, for beliefs about religion tend to come with strong biases against other views and the people who hold them. Evidence can help, but there is no agreed-upon policy for weighting it, and moreover bias affects
Dormandy, Katherine
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Replies to critics. [PDF]

open access: yesAsian J Philos, 2022
Smithies D.
europepmc   +1 more source

If you're so rational, why don't you have any friends? : a theory of doxastic wrongdoing and interpersonal rationality

open access: yes
This thesis is concerned with two key ideas. The first is doxastic wrongdoing, the idea that doxastic attitude could, in and of itself, constitute a wrong. The second is interpersonal rationality. A distinct sense of rationality applicable to both actions and beliefs that is to be contrasted against epistemic rationality.
openaire   +3 more sources

Reasons to Not Believe (and Reasons to Act) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In “Reasons to Believe and Reasons to Act,” Stewart Cohen argues that balance of reasons accounts of rational action get the wrong results when applied to doxastic attitudes, and that there are therefore important differences between reasons to believe ...
Roeber, Blake
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