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Believing Against the Evidence - Agency and the Ethics of Belief (Paperback)
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Believing Against the Evidence - Agency and the Ethics of Belief (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
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The question of whether it is ever permissible to believe on
insufficient evidence has once again become a live question.
Greater attention is now being paid to practical dimensions of
belief, namely issues related to epistemic virtue, doxastic
responsibility, and voluntarism. In this book, McCormick argues
that the standards used to evaluate beliefs are not isolated from
other evaluative domains. The ultimate criteria for assessing
beliefs are the same as those for assessing action because beliefs
and actions are both products of agency. Two important implications
of this thesis, both of which deviate from the dominant view in
contemporary philosophy, are 1) it can be permissible (and
possible) to believe for non-evidential reasons, and 2) we have a
robust control over many of our beliefs, a control sufficient to
ground attributions of responsibility for belief.
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