Faith: Serving Emotional Epistemic-Goals Rather than Evidence-Coherence
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Emotional epistemic goals are an alternative to evidencecoherence, whereby beliefs are held for their aid in achieving some desired subjective goal, independent of the beliefs’ veracity. Some prior research has presumed that deference to “faith” constitutes an emotional goal. However, the epistemic nature of faith and its relation to evidence has been the focus of philosophical debate, both historically and recently. The present study examines how believers construe the epistemology of faith, by examining the covariance between faith-based, emotion-based, and evidence-based reasons that believers endorse for their specific beliefs across a number of topics. Results support the view of faith as a form of emotional preference.
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