In Jonathan Matheson (ed.), The Ethics of Belief. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 12-33 (2014)
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In this chapter, we argue for three theses: (1) we lack the power to form beliefs at will
(i.e., directly); at very least, we lack the power to form at will beliefs of the kind that proponents of doxastic voluntarism have in mind; but (2) we possess a propensity to form
beliefs for non-epistemic reasons; and (3) these propensities—once we come to know
we have them—entail that we have obligations similar to those we would have were
doxastic voluntarism true. Specifically, we will argue that we have obligations to avoid
triggering these propensities to form beliefs that are unwarranted or even immoral.
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