Believing Against the Evidence
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Believing Against the Evidence

Agency and the Ethics of Belief

Miriam Schleifer McCormick

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Believing Against the Evidence

Agency and the Ethics of Belief

Miriam Schleifer McCormick

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About This Book

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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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2014
ISBN
9781136682759
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Epistemology in Philosophy

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    Citation styles for Believing Against the Evidence

    APA 6 Citation

    McCormick, M. S. (2014). Believing Against the Evidence (1st ed.). Taylor and Francis. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/1666205/believing-against-the-evidence-pdf (Original work published 2014)

    Chicago Citation

    McCormick, Miriam Schleifer. (2014) 2014. Believing Against the Evidence. 1st ed. Taylor and Francis. https://www.perlego.com/book/1666205/believing-against-the-evidence-pdf.

    Harvard Citation

    McCormick, M. S. (2014) Believing Against the Evidence. 1st edn. Taylor and Francis. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/1666205/believing-against-the-evidence-pdf (Accessed: 25 September 2021).

    MLA 7 Citation

    McCormick, Miriam Schleifer. Believing Against the Evidence. 1st ed. Taylor and Francis, 2014. Web. 25 Sept. 2021.