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Believing and Acting: Voluntary Control and the Pragmatic Theory of Belief [PDF]
, 2015 I argue that a attractive theory about the metaphysics of belief—the prag- matic, interpretationist theory endorsed by Stalnaker, Lewis, and Dennett, among others—implies that agents have a novel form of voluntary control over their beliefs. According to
Hedden, Brian
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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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Justification and Inquiry: Resolving the Easy Knowledge Problem
Theoria, Volume 91, Issue 5, October 2025.ABSTRACT Bootstrapping and the easy knowledge problem can be understood as puzzles about conflicting intuitions. On one hand, each step of the inference seems correct, but on the other, the overall process seems unacceptable. These puzzles will be resolved by establishing two distinctions.
Guido Melchior
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Faith, Belief, and Control [PDF]
, 2018 In this paper, I solve a puzzle generated by three conflicting claims about the relationship between faith, belief, and control: according to the Identity Thesis, faith is a type of belief, and according to Fideistic Voluntarism, we sometimes have ...
Rettler, Lindsay
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Putting Racism Back in the Head
Philosophy &Public Affairs, Volume 53, Issue 3, Page 218-228, Summer 2025.ABSTRACT Personal racism used to be widely considered a kind of cognitive defect, with racists being people with biased, irrational racial attitudes. This kind of epistemic “racism‐in‐the‐head” view has fallen largely out of favor in recent decades.
Jordan Scott
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Divergence Arguments in Collective Epistemology
Philosophy Compass, Volume 20, Issue 6, June 2025.ABSTRACT Many have argued that the lives of groups and their members may diverge. For example, that groups can believe or know propositions that none of their members know or believe. This article gives an overview of a prominent type of argument, called divergence argument, which aims to support this view.
Simon Graf, Haixin Dang
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Empiricism, Stances, And The Problem Of Voluntarism [PDF]
, 2011 Classical empiricism leads to notorious problems having to do with the (at least prima facie) lack of an acceptable empiricist justification of empiricism itself. Bas van Fraassen claims that his idea of the empirical stance can deal with such problems.
Baumann, Peter
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Hoping on insufficient evidence: how epistemically rational can action‐centred faith be?
The Heythrop Journal, Volume 66, Issue 3, Page 238-252, May 2025.Abstract Daniel McKaughan has recently argued that conceiving faith as an ‘action‐centred’ attitude whose cognitive component falls short of outright belief can play a central role in explaining how people who regard the truth of Christianity as significantly less probable than naturalism can respond with faith to the gospel proclamation without ...
Giorgio Volpe
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Belief and Credence: Why the Attitude-Type Matters [PDF]
, 2019 In this paper, I argue that the relationship between belief and credence is a central question in epistemology. This is because the belief-credence relationship has significant implications for a number of current epistemological issues.
Jackson, Elizabeth
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Non-evidential believing and permissivism about evidence : A reply to Dan-Johan Eklund [PDF]
, 2015 In response to John Bishop's (2007) account of passionally caused believing, Dan-Johan Eklund (2014) argues that conscious non-evidential believing is (conceptually) impossible, that is, it's (conceptually) impossible consciously to believe that p whilst
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