Doxastic Involuntarism and Evidentialism: A Curious Modern Conjunction

It is a curious feature of early modern (specifically empiricist) epistemology and its contemporary heirs in analytic philosophy that belief is held both to be involuntary (doxastic involuntarism), and to be subject to a prescriptive norm of evidence (evidentialism). I begin by laying out these thes...

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Main Author: Gamache, Joseph (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: [publisher not identified] [2017]
In: Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association
Year: 2017, Volume: 91, Pages: 81-92
IxTheo Classification:CB Christian life; spirituality
KAE Church history 900-1300; high Middle Ages
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
VA Philosophy
Further subjects:B BELIEF & doubt
B EVIDENTIALISM
B analytic philosophy
B Faith
B theory of knowledge
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