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Epistemic Norms In Light Of Doxastic Voluntarism by Alex von Stein (Lewis & Clark College)

Date: March 19 2010, 3:30pm Location: John R. Howard Hall 202

When presented with a pink ice cube, it seems as though I cannot but believe that there is a pink object before me. My belief is caused. In stark contrast to this, we think that if one believes in God, they have chosen to do so, and so believe on the basis of reasons. How can we account for this difference in the control we have over our beliefs? In this paper I seek to resolve this confusion. I then examine how the control we have over belief informs our conceptions of epistemic norms – the criteria by which we evaluate beliefs as they relate to knowledge.

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