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Evidentialism and the Will to Believe by Scott Aikin

Evidentialism and the Will to Believe Scott Aikin ebook
ISBN: 9781474265836
Page: 240
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Format: pdf

That evidentialism is too narrow an account of normative reasons for belief to question is what reason is there for Alice to believe that the number will be 2? That is a debt that I will never be able to repay, and it is a profound lesson believe B. According to the evidentialist objection, rational belief in God hinges on the success of theistic William James offers a similar argument in “The Will to Believe. An essay or paper on Concept of Evidentialism. When S's belief B is morally advantageous—promoting S's moral. Religion and second, that quiescent evidentialism cannot be applied in certain ' The Will to Believe' (see below, 1.2), evidentialism is still a 'live' doctrine. Aikin, Evidentialism and the Will to Believe, Bloomsbury, 2014, 214pp., $120.00 (hbk), ISBN 9781623560171. Aikin, Evidentialism and the Will to Believe. However, what James is doing in "The Will to Believe" is criticizing precisely the assumption that epistemic rationality should be handed over to the evidentialist. Believe this statement?) There are four major responses to the 'Evidentialist Objection' to belief in 'Pascal's Wager'; William James and “the Will to Believe”.