Debunking creedal beliefs
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چکیده
Following Anthony Downs’s classic economic analysis of democracy, it has been widely noted that most voters lack the incentive to be well-informed. Recent empirical work, however, suggests further political partisans can display selectively lazy or biased reasoning. Unfortunately, knowledge seems exacerbate, rather than mitigate, these tendencies. In this paper, I build on observations construct a more general skeptical challenge which affects what call creedal beliefs. Such beliefs share three features: (i) costs individual being wrong are negligible, (ii) subject social scrutiny, and (iii) evidential landscape relevant is sufficiently complex so as make easy verification difficult. Some philosophers scientists have recently argued under such conditions, likely play signaling, opposed navigational role, our ability hold in way adaptive. However, if right, argue there at least partial debunker for Moreover, offers, suggest, one develop based etiological explanation John Stuart Mill presents On Liberty when he claims same causes lead someone devout Christian London would made them Confucian Peking. Finally, contend appropriately circumscribed does not over-extend an implausible way.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Synthese
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['0039-7857', '1573-0964']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-03991-6