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Epistemic Deontologism and Strong Doxastic Voluntarism: A Defense
Dialogue, 2015The following claims are independently plausible but jointly inconsistent: (1) epistemic deontologism is correct (i.e., there are some beliefs we ought to have, and some beliefs we ought not to have); (2) we have no voluntary control over our beliefs; (3) S’s lack of control over whether she φs implies that S has no obligation to φ or to not φ (i.e ...
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Descartes and the Question of Direct Doxastic Voluntarism
Journal of Philosophical Research, 2010In this paper, I clarify Descartes' account of belief, in general, and of judgment, in particular. Then, drawing upon this clarification, I explain the type of direct doxastic voluntarism that he endorses. In particular, I attempt to demonstrate two claims.
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Doxastic Voluntarism and the Function of Epistemic Evaluations
Erkenntnis, 2011Control of our own beliefs is allegedly required for the truth of epistemic evaluations, such as “S ought to believe that p”, or “S ought to suspend judgment (and so refrain from any belief) whether p”. However, we cannot usually believe or refrain from believing at will.
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Overlapping consensus: normative understanding and doxastic voluntarism
Croatian journal of philosophy, 2009Rawls' idea of overlapping consensus is crucial for the public justification of a political conception of justice in modern democratic societies. While overlapping consensus is mostly understood empirically, in the first part of this article we argue that a normative interpretation is more appropriate.
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Implications of the Debate on Doxastic Voluntarism for W. K. Clifford’s Ethics of Belief
2020One of the most controversial positions in the debate on an ethics of belief is the position of William Kingdon Clifford, who argues for the evidentialist principle that one should never believe upon insufficient evidence. Clifford’s position differs from most contemporary evidentialist approaches in that he takes this principle to be a moral norm ...
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Doxastic voluntarism and the libertarian notion of freedom
2008In this paper I'll try to show the main problems that emerged in the discussion regarding the plausibility of doxastic voluntarism and it’ s applicability in the realm of the deontology of belief. In the first part of the paper I’ ll briefly illustrate why should we regard the thesis of doxastic voluntarism as an important one for the ...
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