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Mental agency and rational subjectivity

European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 224-245, March 2024.
Abstract Philosophy is witnessing an “Agential Turn,” characterised by the thought that explaining certain distinctive features of human mentality requires conceiving of many mental phenomena as acts, and of subjects as their agents. We raise a challenge for three central explanatory appeals to mental agency––agentialism about doxastic responsibility ...
Lucy Campbell, Alexander Greenberg
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Doxastic Responsibility and the Challenge of Doxastic Voluntarism. Insights from Cases of Self-Deception [PDF]

In the article, I present the debate on doxastic voluntarism and its relation to doxastic responsibility. I outline the discussion in the literature, focusing on Alston’s argument against doxastic responsibility, and then present my ...
Odoj, Ewa
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Truth, Communication, and Democracy

International Journal of Communication, 2019
This article argues that truth is vital to deliberative democracy and to communication as an academic discipline. Our definition of truth is critical realist in nature—that is, it refers to an ontologically objective reality.
Douglas Porpora, Seif Sekalala
doaj  

W. K. Clifford and William James on Doxastic Norms [PDF]

, 2018
The main aim of this paper is to explain and analyze the debate between W. K. Clifford ("The Ethics of Belief", 1877) and William James ("The Will to Believe", 1896).
Oya, Alberto
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Epistemic duties and failure to understand one’s evidence

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2012
The paper defends the thesis that our epistemic duty is the duty to proportion our beliefs to the evidence we possess. An inclusive view of evidenced possessed is put forward on the grounds that it makes sense of our intuitions about when it is right to ...
Scott Stapleford
doaj  

Moore’s Paradox, Direct Doxastic Voluntarism, and Atheist Distrust [PDF]

, 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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Doxastic voluntarism and self-deception

, 2007
Direct Doxastic Voluntarism the notion that we have direct (un-mediated) voluntary control over our beliefs has widely been held to be false. There are, however, two ways to interpret the impossibility of our having doxastic control: as either a ...
Booth, Anthony R.
core  

Control Over Believing and Doxastic Responsibility. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2022
Visala A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Adversarial Argument, Belief Change, and Vulnerability. [PDF]

Topoi (Dordr), 2021
Howes M, Hundleby C.
europepmc   +1 more source

Decision-Based Epistemology: sketching a systematic framework of Feyerabend's metaphilosophy. [PDF]

Synthese, 2021
Kuby D.
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