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What is rational belief?
Dutant, Julien Littlejohn, Clayton
Dutant, Julien
Littlejohn, Clayton
Abstract
A theory of rational belief should get the cases right. It should also reach its verdicts using the right theoretical assumptions. Leading theories seem to predict the wrong things. With only one exception, they don't accommodate principles that we should use to explain these verdicts. We offer a theory of rational belief that combines an attractive picture of epistemic desirability with plausible principles connecting desirability to rationality.
Keywords
rational belief, philosophy, theory, epistemic desirability, desirability, rationality
Date
2023
Type
Journal article
Journal
Book
Volume
58
Issue
2
Page Range
333-359
Article Number
ACU Department
Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry
Faculty of Theology and Philosophy
Faculty of Theology and Philosophy
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Published as ‘gold’ (paid) open access
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CC BY-NC 4.0
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Open
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© 2023 The Authors. Noûs published by Wiley Periodicals LLC.
This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/