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Belief isn't voluntary, but commitment is
pp. 1163-1179
Abstrakt
To be committed to the truth of a proposition is to constrain one’s options in a certain way: one may not reason as if it is false, and one is obligated to reason as if it is true. Though one is often committed to the truth of the propositions that one believes, the states of belief and commitment are distinct. For historical reasons, however, they are rarely distinguished. Distinguishing between the two states allows for a defense of epistemic deontology against the charge that beliefs are not under the voluntary control of believers, and so cannot be subject to deontic evaluation. It also allows for the resolution of some disputes between naturalists and non-naturalists in epistemology, and permits us to account for obvious facts about the connection between belief and truth in a theoretically parsimonious way.
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Ulatowski Joseph, Wright Cory (2018) Minimalism about truth. Synthese 195 (3).
Seiten: 1163-1179
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-016-1258-y
Referenz:
Tebben Nicholas (2018) „Belief isn't voluntary, but commitment is“. Synthese 195 (3), 1163–1179.