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Libro 62 de 207: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

McCormick, Miriam Schleifer Schleifer

 
9781138208940: Believing Against the Evidence: Agency and the Ethics of Belief (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy)

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

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9780415818841: Believing Against the Evidence: Agency and the Ethics of Belief (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy)

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ISBN 10:  0415818842 ISBN 13:  9780415818841
Editorial: Routledge, 2014
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