Believing Against the Evidence: Agency and the Ethics of Belief - Rilegato

McCormick, Miriam Schleifer

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ISBN 10: 0415818842 ISBN 13: 9780415818841

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2014

Riassunto

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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Informazioni sull'autore

Miriam Schleifer McCormick is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Richmond, US.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0415818842
• ISBN 13: 9780415818841
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 144
• Contatto del produttore: Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis; gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com; ; Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24; München; 80331; Germania