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84The power to believe for reasonsInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy. 2021.An influential view of believing for reasons holds that the reasons for which we believe are causes of our believing. This view has well-known difficulties accounting for the problem of deviant causal chains. I diagnose these difficulties and argue that the problem arises for the causal view because it uses an impoverished set of resources. I offer a novel causal account of believing for reasons that avoids the problem of causal deviance by appealing to teleological resources such as abilities a…Read more
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University of California, Los AngelesLecturer (Part-time)
Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Action |
Philosophy of Language |
Philosophy of Mind |
Aesthetics |