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Description du livre Softcover. Etat : new. The fundamental question of the ethics of belief is What ought one to believe According to the traditional view of evidentialism the strength of ones beliefs should be proportionate to the evidence Conventional ways of defending and challenging evidentialism rely on the idea that what one ought to believe is a matter of what it is rational prudent ethical or personally fulfilling to believe Common to all these approaches is that they look outside of belief itself to determine what one ought to believeIn this book Jonathan Adler offers a strengthened version of evidentialism arguing that the ethics of belief should be rooted in the concept of beliefthat evidentialism is beliefs own ethics A key observation is that it is not merely that one ought not but that one cannot believe for example that the number of stars is even The cannot represents a conceptual barrier not just an inability Therefore belief in defiance of ones evidence or evidentialism is impossible Adler addresses such questions as irrational beliefs reasonableness control over beliefs and whether justifying beliefs requires a foundation Although he treats the ethics of belief as a central topic in epistemology his ideas also bear on rationality argument and pragmatics philosophy of religion ethics and social cognitive psychology. N° de réf. du vendeur DADAX0262511940