ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DOXASTIC
From Greek doxastikos having an opinion, ultimately from doxazein to conjecture.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DOXASTIC»
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Epistemic virtue and
doxastic responsibility
Defending an original conception of our responsibility for belief and of the relation of such responsibility to moral justification for our actions, James Montmarquet advances a detailed account of certain traits of intellectual character ...
James A. Montmarquet, 1993
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Contemporary Theories of Knowledge
First, we can distinguish between "doxastic" and "nondoxastic" theories. 5.1
Doxastic Theories Until quite recently, it was customarily assumed by
epistemologists that the justifiability of a belief is a function exclusively of what
beliefs one holds ...
John L. Pollock, Joseph Cruz, 1999
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Quitting Certainties: A
Doxastic Modeling Framework
For these reasons, I will not conduct our discussion in terms of what an ideal
agent would do in a particular situation.45 Instead, I will discuss real agents and
talk about what ideal rationality requires of their doxastic evolutions. I have
chosen ...
Michael Gaard Titelbaum, 2008
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Perceiving God: The Epistemology of Religious Experience
In Perceiving God, William P. Alston offers a clear and provocative account of the epistemology of religious experience.
5
A Companion to Epistemology
Deontologism motivates doxastic voluntarism because, if “ought” implies “can”,
then the idea that we can be held responsible for our beliefs seems to entail that
we are in control of the doxastic attitudes that we form. Internalism arguably ...
Jonathan Dancy, Ernest Sosa, Matthias Steup, 2009
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Doxastic Involuntarism and Epistemic Deontology
The observation, however, that belief-formation is importantly involuntary, threatens deontological approaches to the evaluation of those beliefs, for it is often argued that deontological evaluations require a greater degree of control ...
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Essays in Logic and Ontology
The schemata listed are well-known in the doxastic logical literature. Schemata (
4) and (5) are nowadays often referred to as Positive Introspection and Negative
Introspection, respectively; consequently, (4n) is a weaker form of Positive ...
Jacek Malinowski, Andrzej Pietruszczak, 2006
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Perception and Basic Beliefs : Zombies, Modules and the ...
2. Doxastic. and. Nondoxastic. Theories. The. distinction between external object
foundationalism and mental state foundationalism must be carefully
distinguished from another important division within foundationalism. While the
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Jack C Lyons Associate Professor of Philosophy University of Arkansas, 2009
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The Philosophy of Science
The class of theories of justification can be neatly categorized in a number of
ways. One way is by a series of distinctions (Pollock 1979; Pollock and Cruz
1999). The first distinction is between doxastic and non- doxastic theories.
Justification of ...
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Studies in Epistemology
adoption of a DDP is not the adoption of a doxastic attitude. Since no doxastic
attitude is being chosen, no DDP is required. To be sure, some criterion of choice
is needed, which does, as we shall see, pose problems. But the criterion in ...
Peter A. French, Theodore Edward Uehling, Howard K. Wettstein, 1980
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DOXASTIC»
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Leaving Evangelicalism, #1a: The Foundations Are Breaking Up
Doxastic foundationalism simply admits that we have some core beliefs which do function as more foundational than others. This is a relatively ... «Patheos, Apr 15»
Rival Sanctities
... if undisposed to proselytise: being reasonable is no longer a purely doxastic matter, but depends on liberal inclinations. In this respect it's as ... «London Review of Books, Jan 15»
Kevorkian's Vision
... (intense anxiety or psychic torture inflicted by self or others) or doxastic (religious or philosophical tenets or inflexible personal convictions). «The Weekly Standard, Dec 14»
Al Mohler Fit the Battle of Jericho and Inerrancy Came Tumblin' Down
When one eschews doxastic responsibility in favor of unassailable fideism, truth no longer matters. We might as well proclaim “What is truth? «Patheos, Sep 14»
What Would Krishna Do? Or Shiva? Or Vishnu?
Doing philosophy is the way we cultivate our epistemic skills, learning to tell sound doxastic practices from bogus ones, and the cultivation of ... «New York Times, Aug 14»
The problem of evil and hate
There is no doxastic voluntarism, as the philosophers would put it. You can't choose to work up or will yourself to believe in God. You either do ... «Jamaica Gleaner, Oct 13»
Outside the loop
... entails Q, then you (maybe implicitly) know that Q. If you want a fancy term for what you're talking about, then "doxastic insularity" would work. «The Economist, Dec 12»
Darwinism's "Virtual Reality": A Lepidopterist Explains
This leads to a kind of logic practiced by such ideologues, which is called "doxastic logic" (Gr. doxa = glory, holy, opinion). It is not the logic of ... «Discovery Institute, Nov 10»
Why do We Believe What We Believe?
(2) Doxastic Voluntarism is a philosophical concept which states that people have voluntary control over what they believe in.(4) However, this ... «Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, Sep 10»
Statist Rand Paul To Use Tyrannical 'Courts' To Fight Fashion Mag …
[re=635779]doxastic[/re]: Don't forget hazing, ritual sodomy and using roofies for date rape. Republicans call those harmless college pranks ... «Wonkette, Aug 10»
