We call attention to certain cases of epistemic akrasia, arguing that they support belief-credence dualism. Belief-credence dualism is the view belief and credence are irreducible, equally fundamental attitudes. Consider case an agent who believes p, has low in thus shouldn’t believe p. argue dualists, as opposed belief-firsters (who say reduces belief) credence-firsters credence) can best expl...

Article: Included among the many topics on which Aristotle writes in the Nicomachean Ethics is an account of incontinence or akrasia. Many controversies have arisen among interpreters of Aristotle on this issue, and a few of these disputes will be discussed in this paper. In the first part of this paper I shall indicate the usual way of reading Aristotle's account of incontinence, which I shall...