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Agency Evidentialism: Trust and Doxastic Voluntarism
Rivista di Estetica, 2018 In debates about trust and testimony, epistemologists have traditionally been divided into two groups: those who hold that accepting the testimony of other people should be a kind of credulity without evidence (anti-reductivism) and those who assert that
Snježana Prijić-Samaržija
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Staying true with the help of others: doxastic self-control through interpersonal commitment. [PDF]
Philos Explor, 2019 I explore the possibility and rationality of interpersonal mechanisms of doxastic self-control, that is, ways in which individuals can make use of other people in order to get themselves to stick to their beliefs.
Townsend LC.
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Moore’s Paradox, Direct Doxastic Voluntarism, and Atheist Distrust [PDF]
LUX, 2013 The concept of belief is analyzed and then discussed within the context of the current climate of atheist distrust in America. To begin, Moore’s Paradox, and its relationship to an important claim made by Wittgenstein regarding false beliefs, is explored.
Thompson, Kyle
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Deontic-doxastic belief revision and linear system model. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2022 Vestrucci A.
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Are We Pre-Theoretically Committed to Doxastic Voluntarism?
Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 2022 Much of the force behind doxastic involuntarism comes from our pre-theoretical judgement that any effort to form a belief simply by intending to form it must remain unsuccessful. However, despite this, ordinary language use of locutions like “chose to believe” are common.
Nikolaj Nottelmann +2 more
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A Critical Review of the Theory of the Precedence of Action Over Belief with Emphasis on John Cottingham’s View [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2023 The relationship between reason and faith is one of the most important topics in the philosophy of religion. This issue has been investigated from several aspects. One of these aspects is the relationship between action and religious belief.
Mahdi Khayatzadeh
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Locke's Ethics of Virtuous Thinking
Locke Studies, 2022 Locke is generally taken as promoting an ethics of belief. For him, we must apply a doxastic norm so that we properly conduct our understanding. Thus, he forcefully highlights one key epistemic norm, the norm of evidence, that prescribes that we adjust ...
Angélique Thébert
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WHAT’S VOLUNTARY IN STANCE VOLUNTARISM?
Manuscrito, 2021 Stance voluntarism highlights the role of the will in epistemic agency, claiming that agents can control the epistemic stances they assume in forming beliefs.
BRUNO MALAVOLTA E SILVA
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Manuscrito, 2023 This article discusses Rik Peels's response to Williams's argument against voluntary belief. Williams argues that voluntary beliefs must be acquired independently of truth-considerations, so they cannot count as beliefs after all, since beliefs aim at ...
CLAUDIO CORMICK, VALERIA EDELSZTEN
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Choosing and Refusing: Doxastic Voluntarism and Folk Psychology [PDF]
Philosophical Studies, 2017 A standard view in contemporary philosophy is that belief is involuntary, either as a matter of conceptual necessity or as a contingent fact of human psychology. We present seven experiments on patterns in ordinary folk-psychological judgments about belief.
John Turri +2 more
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