Fittingness first?: Reasons to withhold belief

Reasons for (prior) belief in Bayesian epistemology

Bayesian epistemology tells us with great precision how we should move from prior to posterior beliefs in light of new evidence or information, but says little about where our prior beliefs come from. It o¤ers few resources to describe some prior beliefs as rational or well-justi…ed, and others as irrational or unreasonable. A di¤erent strand of epistemology takes the central epistemological qu...

Reasons and the ambiguity of ‘belief’

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Trust and belief: a preemptive reasons account

According to doxastic accounts of trust, trusting a person to Φ involves, among other things, holding a belief about the trusted person: either the belief that the trusted person is trustworthy or the belief that she actually will Φ. In recent years, several philosophers have argued against doxastic accounts of trust. They have claimed that the phenomenology of trust suggests that rather than s...

Truth Promoting Non-Evidential Reasons for Belief

Paramedics possibility to withhold resuscitation.

We write in response to the letter ‘UK paramedics can legally withhold resuscitation in defined circumstances’ by Bronnert et al. First, we have to mention that our article ‘Paramedics experiences and expectations concerning advance directives: A prospective, questionnaire-based, bi-centre study’1 is correct in stating that it is not legally clear-cut whether UK paramedics may withhold resuscit...