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Version of Houses in Motion published for Asian market.
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      EthicsSoutheast Asian StudiesUrban AnthropologyMalaysia
According to Williamson, your evidence consists of all and only what you know (E = K). According to his critics, it doesn’t. While E = K calls for revision, the revisions it calls for are minor. E = K gets this much right. Only true... more
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      Ethics of BeliefEpistemic JustificationEvidenceJustification and evidence
Аннотация: В статье рассматривается проблематика этики веры, в рамках которой утверждается, что «всегда, везде и для каждого ошибочно верить чему-либо без достаточных сведений». Автор показывает, что строгий эвиденциализм, следующий из... more
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      EpistemologyPhilosophy Of ReligionTheologyEthics of Belief
This is the Power Point that went with my paper "Why I am an Atheist) which I presented as the 2020 GCRR conference on atheism.

The full paper is available in the "book chapters" section, because the paper is also published in a book.
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      Kalam (Islamic Theology)Ethics of BeliefDoctrine of GodProblem of Evil
This book explores the moral psychology of devotion. In the first part of the book, I provide I analysis of devotion; an examination of its motivational role; and an explanation of its connection to a distinctive form of valuing, in which... more
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      EthicsPhilosophy of AgencyMoral PsychologyTerrorism
Аннотация: Данная статья-это введение в работу У. К. Клиффорда «Этика убеждения». Автор анализирует связь этой работы с современной философией религии, рассматривает природу отношений между эпистемологией и этикой в теории Клиффорда, а... more
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    • Ethics of Belief
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      BuddhismCognition (Anthropology)Anthropology of KnowledgeMetacognition
The claim that the Earth is flat (Flat Earth theory, or FET) has recently become a popular, Internet-based conspiracy theory. In addition to creating digital content in the form of websites, social media accounts, podcasts, and YouTube... more
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      AtheismHermeneuticsWilliam JamesConspiracy Theories
In this paper, I articulate and discuss Clifford's two main arguments in favor of the norm that it is illegitimate to believe based on insufficient evidence. The first argument appeals to the instrumental value of belief, and the second... more
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      EpistemologyWilliam JamesEthics of BeliefEpistemic Justification
The author defends the claim that there are cases in which we should promote irrationality by arguing (1) that it is sometimes better to be in an irrational state of mind, and (2) that we can often (purposefully) influence our state of... more
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      EpistemologyControlEthics of BeliefNormativity
In dit artikel geef ik antwoord op drie vragen. Ten eerste, wat houdt Cliffords evidentialisme in en hoe kan op basis hiervan het bewijs-argument tegen het christelijk geloof geformuleerd worden? (Ik zal het christelijk geloof in het... more
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      William JamesEthics of BeliefDoctrine of GodReligious Epistemology
This provides an overview of the 1.5M ERC Starting Grant on the Epistemology and Ethics of fundamentalism that was recently awarded to me. I aim to carry out the research from 2020 to 2025 in the Philosophy Department (Faculty of... more
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      TerrorismInternational TerrorismHistory of FundamentalismPolitical Violence and Terrorism
Can science tell us what’s objectively true? Or is it merely a clever way to cure doubt – to give us something to believe in, whether it’s true or not? In this essay, I look at the pragmatist account of science expounded by Charles... more
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      ReligionHistoryAmerican HistoryCultural History
Can we be intellectually humble about our own convictions? Should we be? These are the two questions I want to examine in this chapter. These questions, while overtly philosophical, have a personal and a political relevance in our lives.... more
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      Ethics of BeliefSocial EpistemologyVirtue EpistemologyPolarization
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This is a brief overview of how philosophers think of knowledge, including reflections on what happens when a commitment to the disinterested pursuit of knowledge is abandoned. Published in Turkey.
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      EpistemologyEthics of Belief
Gorbanenko, S. A. (ed.). 2020. Household Magic of the Eastern Slavs According to Archaeological Data: Essays. We offer the reader a selection of essays representing some aspects of the spiritual life of the Eastern Slavs. The processes... more
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      ArchaeologyUkrainian StudiesEthics of BeliefMedieval Magic
Joannes Leo Africanus, (c. 1494 – c. 1554?) (or al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi, Arabic:حسن ابن محمد الوزان الفاسي) was an Andalusian Amazigh Moorish diplomat and author who is best known for his book Descrittione dell’Africa... more
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      Modern LanguagesReligionHistoryAncient History
A detailed study on Shraddha:
A translation of two Kannada lectures delivered by Rev Swami Purushottamanandaji of Belgaum Ramakrishna Mission in 1980:
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      HinduismEthics of BeliefFaithBeliefs
Verbete publicado em Compêndio de Epistemologia. Editora Fi, 2022. Há pelo menos três modos pelos quais o debate sobre a conduta doxástica se relaciona com a ética. O primeiro e menos contencioso assinala que o ato de crer,... more
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      EpistemologyWilliam JamesEthics of BeliefEpistemic Justification
There is a kind of objectivism in epistemology that involves the acceptance of objective epistemic norms. It is generally regarded as harmless. There is another kind of objectivism in epistemology that involves the acceptance of an... more
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      Ethics of BeliefEpistemic JustificationJustification and evidenceNorms of assertion
Il lavoro si propone di dimostrare come il valore epistemico della verità sia l'unico valore da cui derivare necessariamente la norma alla deliberazione doxastica. Dopo un primo capitolo introduttivo all'Etica della Credenza, si dimostra... more
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      EthicsWilliam JamesTruthEthics of Belief
This theme issue has the founding ambition of landscaping Data Ethics as a new branch of ethics that studies and evaluates moral problems related to data (including generation, recording, curation, processing, dissemination, sharing, and... more
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      Business EthicsEngineeringComputer ScienceAlgorithms
Despite the recent backlash against epistemic consequentialism, an explicit systematic alternative has yet to emerge. This paper articulates and defends a novel alternative, Epistemic Kantianism, which rests on a requirement of respect... more
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      EpistemologyEpistemic ValueEthics of BeliefEpistemic Justification
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      Ethics of BeliefSelf-deceptionTheory of KnowledgeRationality
Abstract: The idea of a first principle looms large in Fichte’s thought, and its first notable appearance is in his “Aphorisms on Religion and Deism” (1790), which has received little attention. I begin this paper by providing some... more
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      ReligionJohann Gottlieb FichteEthics of BeliefImmanuel Kant
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      EpistemologyIslamic PhilosophyEthics of BeliefReligious Epistemology
I reject God’s existence because (1) the concept of God is logically incoherent, (2) the idea that God exists was fabricated, (3) the arguments for God’s existence fail, and (4) the arguments against God’s existence succeed. In what... more
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      AtheismKalam (Islamic Theology)Ethics of BeliefDoctrine of God
Patrick BONDY, Introduction Sharon RYAN, In Defense of Moral Evidentialism Andrew REISNER and Joseph VAN WEELDEN, Moral Reasons for Moral Beliefs: A Puzzle for Moral Testimony Pessimism Dustin OLSON, A Case for Epistemic Agency Benjamin... more
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      EpistemologyTruthEthics of BeliefPragmatism (Philosophy)
What does it mean to have “strong beliefs”? My thesis is that it can mean two very different things. That is, there are two distinct psychological features to which “strong belief” can refer, and these often come apart. I call the first... more
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      ChristianityPsychologyCognitive PsychologyCognitive Science
Ibn Baṭūṭah (Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد بن عبد الله اللواتي الطنجي بن بطوطة‎, ʾAbū ʿAbd al-Lāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Lāh l-Lawātī ṭ-Ṭanǧī ibn Baṭūṭah), or simply Ibn Battuta (ابن بطوطة) (February 25, 1304 – 1368 or 1369), was a Moroccan... more
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      ReligionHistoryAncient HistoryCultural History
This paper develops two new arguments to show that realism about epistemic evaluative facts implies realism about moral evaluative facts. Previous attempts to derive moral from epistemic realism rely on the claim that arguments for moral... more
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      Normative EthicsEthics of BeliefEpistemic JustificationMetaethics
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      BusinessBusiness EthicsComputer ScienceInformation Technology
A growing number of philosophers are concerned with the epistemic status of culturally nurtured beliefs, beliefs found especially in domains of morals, politics, philosophy, and religion. Plausibly, worries about the deep impact of... more
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      Comparative ReligionHistorical GeographyEpistemologyEpistemic Luck
Moral encroachment holds that the epistemic justification of a belief can be affected by moral factors. If the belief might wrong a person or group more evidence is required to justify the belief. Moral encroachment thereby opposes... more
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      Ethics of BeliefPragmatic encroachmentMoral Encroachment
I motivate three claims: Firstly, attentional traits can be cognitive virtues and vices. Secondly, groups and collectives can possess attentional virtues and vices. Thirdly, attention has epistemic, moral, social, and political... more
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      AttentionEthics of BeliefSocial EpistemologyVirtue Epistemology
The aim of this paper is to explore a pragmatic approach to hope and the ethics of belief that allows rational hope against hope. Hope against hope is hope that goes beyond what the evidence supports by hoping for something that is both... more
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      EpistemologyPragmatismMoral PsychologyEthics of Belief
By focusing on Eliade’s early life and writings (1921–1936), and specifically on his work on Yoga, I address in this paper a question that is frequently asked about the problematic relation between personal belief and scholarship in... more
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      ReligionChristianityBuddhismHinduism
For decades, philosophers have displayed an interest in what it is to have an epistemically justified belief. Recently, we also find among philosophers a renewed interest in the so-called ethics of belief: what is it to believe... more
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      EpistemologyWilliam JamesEthics of BeliefEpistemic Justification
In popular thought about the meaning of religion, as well as established debates in anthropology, religious belief is interpreted as either a commitment to a clear set of propositions, or as a non-literal, symbolic, ethical or social... more
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      ReligionBuddhismParapsychologyAnthropology
In this paper it is proposed that a central topic of inquiry in the study of social knowledge should be the clarification of the conditions of communication that are likely to lead to the attainment of knowledge rather than to the... more
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      PsychologySocial PsychologyDevelopmental PsychologyCommunication
When is a person justified in believing a proposition? In this paper, I defend a view according to which a person is justified in believing a proposition just in case the person’s evidence sufficiently supports the proposition and the... more
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      Ethics of BeliefEpistemic JustificationEpistemic NormsEvidentialism
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      EpistemologyEthics of BeliefObjectivity
This is an account of Sceptical investigation as it is presented by Sextus Empiricus. I focus attention on the motivation behind the Sceptic’s investigation, the goal of that investigation, and on the development Sextus describes from... more
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      EpistemologyTruthEthics of BeliefEpistemic Justification
It is plausible that there are epistemic reasons bearing on a distinctively epistemic standard of correctness for belief. It is also plausible that there are a range of practical reasons bearing on what to believe. These theses are often... more
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      Ethics of BeliefNormativityEpistemic NormativityEpistemic Reasons
Recent writers have invoked the idea that epistemic rationality gives us options in an attempt to show that we can exercise direct doxastic control without irrationality. Specifically, they suggest that when the evidence for p is... more
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      EpistemologyEthics of BeliefReasonsRationality
Neste artigo, mapeio o terreno da discussão em torno das teorias da conspiração, destacando o problema de como defini-las, os fatores que levam à crença nas teorias da conspiração, os seus potenciais prejuízos e como devemos reagir a... more
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      EpistemologyConspiracy TheoriesEthics of BeliefPolitical Epistemology
This book has argued that problems of religious luck, especially when operationalized into concerns about doxastic risk and responsibility, can be of shared interest to theologians, philosophers, and psychologists. We have pointed... more
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      Comparative ReligionPhilosophy Of ReligionContinental Philosophy of Religion (Philosophy)Religious Pluralism
This chapter is intended to provide a philosophical analysis of Fear and Trembling in the light of the debate around the Ethics of Belief. In addition, I will argue that Kierkegaard’s purpose in writing this work was not to defend what... more
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      BuddhismPhilosophyEthicsTheology