Belief's Own Ethics
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In this book Jonathan Adler offers a strengthened version of evidentialism, arguing that the ethics of belief should be rooted in the concept of belief--that evidentialism is belief's own ethics. A key observation is that it is not merely that one ought not, but that one cannot, believe, for example, that the number of stars is even. The cannot represents a conceptual barrier, not just an inability. Therefore belief in defiance of one's evidence (or evidentialism) is impossible. Adler addresses such questions as irrational beliefs, reasonableness, control over beliefs, and whether justifying beliefs requires a foundation. Although he treats the ethics of belief as a central topic in epistemology, his ideas also bear on rationality, argument and pragmatics, philosophy of religion, ethics, and social cognitive psychology.
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- Paperback | 373 pages
- 152 x 229 x 19mm | 522g
- 01 Mar 2006
- MIT Press Ltd
- Bradford Books
- Massachusetts, United States
- English
- Revised ed.
- 0262511940
- 9780262511940
- 1,382,568
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