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
$103.66
by Miriam Schleifer McCormick (Author)
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.
Author Biography
Miriam Schleifer McCormick is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Richmond, US.
Number of Pages: 144
Dimensions: 0.34 x 9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: July 27, 2016
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