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The Ethics of Belief: Conservative Belief Management
Social Epistemology, 2006Some hold that W.K. Clifford’s arguments are inconsistent, appealing to the disvalue of likely consequences of nonevidential belief‐formation, while also insisting that the consequences are irrelev...
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Tulane Studies in Philosophy, 1966
This title covers two hauntingly brief explorations, one occurring in Chisholm’s book on Perceiving: A Philosophical Study,1 the other in an acute probing by Firth.2 In what follows, I shall confine myself to: (1) briefly state Chisholm’s proposal to formulate expressions, featuring epistemic terms, in what is usually called “normative” language;
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This title covers two hauntingly brief explorations, one occurring in Chisholm’s book on Perceiving: A Philosophical Study,1 the other in an acute probing by Firth.2 In what follows, I shall confine myself to: (1) briefly state Chisholm’s proposal to formulate expressions, featuring epistemic terms, in what is usually called “normative” language;
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The Ethics of Belief and the Ethics of Teaching
Journal of Philosophy of Education, 1998Notwithstanding its obvious educational importance, the idea of an ethics of belief has been little explored by educational philosophers. The notion turns out to be more complex and to involve more difficulties than is usually supposed. Exploring these complexities and difficulties opens up many avenues of philosophical and educational inquiry.
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“The Ethics of Belief” Reconsidered
2001Abstract Addresses the relation between epistemic and moral duty. Argues against what the writer calls the special case thesis, according to which epistemic appraisal is merely an instance of moral appraisal. Argues also against the correlation thesis, which asserts that the appropriateness of a positive (negative) epistemic appraisal ...
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The Ethics of Belief Reconsidered
The Journal of Religion, 1979In the decades following the Enlightenment, it must have been particularly disturbing to the Christian intellectual to be told that faith itself is an irresponsible act. The assumption lying behind this accusation was, of course, that the genuine lover of truth is a person who does not entertain any proposition with a greater degree of assurance than ...
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2007
Abstract This chapter is concerned with criminal liability in cases where the defendant had mistaken beliefs about the outcome of his or her actions. It is sometimes argued, by subjectivists, that we can be responsible for causing a certain outcome only if we were aware of at least the risk of that outcome coming about.
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Abstract This chapter is concerned with criminal liability in cases where the defendant had mistaken beliefs about the outcome of his or her actions. It is sometimes argued, by subjectivists, that we can be responsible for causing a certain outcome only if we were aware of at least the risk of that outcome coming about.
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Firth and the Ethics of Belief
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 1991I trust that I may begin on a personal note. It was one September day in 1938 that I first met Rod Firth when we both enrolled in Ralph Barton Perry's seminar on "The General Theory of Value." Firth and I began almost at once to discuss and to argue about philosophy and we continued to do this for almost fifty years. I am honored and deeply moved to be
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Kierkegaard and the Ethics of Belief
2023Should we ever form a belief because it would make us happy, refrain from believing a claim for which we have strong evidence because this belief would be racist, or have faith in God or trust in another person that goes beyond—or even against—our evidence? My dissertation addresses these central questions in the “ethics of belief” by engaging with the
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Transparency and the ethics of belief
Philosophical Studies, 2015A central dispute in the ethics of belief concerns what kinds of considerations can be reasons for belief. Nishi Shah has recently argued that the correct explanation of transparency in doxastic deliberation—the psychological phenomenon that only considerations bearing on the truth of p can be deliberated from to conclude in believing that p—settles ...
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2014
People do not always really believe what they take themselves to believe [1]. A person may sincerely say that a certain racist belief is definitively false, but still hold such a belief. When asked what she believes about something, it is likely that she simply expresses her opinion about the issue in question, and this reveals what she takes herself ...
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People do not always really believe what they take themselves to believe [1]. A person may sincerely say that a certain racist belief is definitively false, but still hold such a belief. When asked what she believes about something, it is likely that she simply expresses her opinion about the issue in question, and this reveals what she takes herself ...
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