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Booth, Anthony Robert (2014) On some recent moves in defense of doxastic compatibilism. Synthese, 191 (8). pp. 1867-1880. ISSN 0039-7857
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Abstract
According to the doxastic compatibilist, compatibilist criteria with respect to the freedom of action rule-in our having free beliefs. In Booth (Philosophical Papers 38:1–12, 2009), I challenged the doxastic compatibilist to either come up with an account of how doxastic attitudes can be intentional in the face of it very much seeming to many of us that they cannot. Or else, in rejecting that doxastic attitudes need to be voluntary in order to be free, to come up with a principled account of how her criteria of doxastic freedom are criteria of freedom. In two recent papers, Steup (Synthese 188:145–163, 2012; Dialectica 65(4):559–576, 2011) takes up the first disjunct of the challenge by proposing that even though beliefs cannot be practically intentional, they can be epistemically intentional. McHugh (McHugh forthcoming) instead takes up the second disjunct by proposing that the freedom of belief be modelled not on the freedom of action but on the freedom of intention. I argue that both Steup’s and McHugh’s strategies are problematic.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Schools and Departments: | School of History, Art History and Philosophy > Philosophy |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BD Speculative Philosophy > BD143 Epistemology. Theory of knowledge |
| Depositing User: | Anthony Booth |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Dec 2013 14:05 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Jul 2014 14:36 |
| URI: | http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/47143 |
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