Abstract According to doxastic involuntarism, we cannot believe at will. In this paper, I argue that permissivism, the view that, times, there is more than one way respond rationally a given body of evidence, consistent with involuntarism. Rober (Mind 128(511):837–859, 2019a, Philos Phenom Res 1–17, 2019b) argues since permissive situations are possible, cognitively healthy agents can However, ...