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Permission to believe: descriptive and prescriptive beliefs in the Clifford/James debate
William Clifford's ‘The Ethics of Belief' proposes an ‘evidence principle': …it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence (1877, 1879:186). Its universal, absolutist language seems to hide something fundamentally correct. We first argue for excluding...
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Department of Philosophy
2021
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