Cockayne, Joshua, Efird, David orcid.org/0000-0001-5935-1938, Molto, Daniel V et al. (2 more authors) (2015) Non-evidential believing and permissivism about evidence:A reply to Dan-Johan Eklund. Religious Studies. pp. 1-10. ISSN 1469-901X
Abstract
In response to John Bishop's (2007) account of passionally caused believing, Dan-Johan Eklund (2014) argues that conscious non-evidential believing is (conceptually) impossible, that is, it's (conceptually) impossible consciously to believe that p whilst acknowledging that the relevant evidence doesn't support p's being true, for it conflicts with belief being a truth-oriented attitude, or so he argues. In this article, we present Eklund's case against Bishop's account of passionally caused believing, and we argue that it's unpersuasive, at least to those who accept permissivism about evidence, that is, that it's possible for there to be more than one rational response to a given body of evidence. We do this through a novel application of a case of nurtured belief, that is, of a person holding a belief simply because she was caused to do so by her upbringing, and we use it to show exactly where Eklund's argument goes wrong. We conclude by drawing a general lesson drawn from this debate: if permissivism about evidence is true, then belief being truth-oriented is consistent with non-evidential believing being possible.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Cambridge University Press 2015. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details. |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (York) > Philosophy (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 05 Jul 2016 14:04 |
Last Modified: | 03 Jan 2025 00:08 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034412515000517 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/S0034412515000517 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:102002 |
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