Doxastic justification through dispositions to cause

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According to the standard view, a belief is based on reason and doxastically justified—i.e., permissibly held—only if causal relation obtains between belief. In this paper, I argue that can be justified by reason’s mere disposition sustain it. Such disposition, however, wouldn’t establish connection unless it were manifested. My argument that, in cases have mind, manifestation of would add no positive epistemic feature belief: after powers must already been before their manifestation. As result, those who adhere view basing face hard choice: they should either abandon enormously popular doxastic justification has requirement or modify relation.

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: Synthese

سال: 2022

ISSN: ['0039-7857', '1573-0964']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-03800-0