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James Southworth

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    The Passional Nature and the Will to Believe
    Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 52 (1): 62. 2016.
    A central criticism of William James’s “The Will to Believe” is that it gives individuals a license for wishful thinking. There may be insufficient evidence with respect to the existence of God, but our willing to believe that God exists does not make it the case. Simply put, wanting something to be true does not make it true. Accordingly, some of James’s early critics proposed that the essay would have been more accurately titled “The Will to Deceive” or “The Will to Make Believe.” More recentl…Read more
    Charles Sanders Peirce
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    How argumentative writing stifles open-mindedness
    Arts and Humanities in Higher Education 20 (2): 207-227. 2020.
    A longstanding assumption within higher education is that there is a clear link between argumentative writing and critical thinking. In this paper, I challenge this assumption. I argue that argumen...
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    A Perspective-Taking Theory of Open-Mindedness: Confronting the Challenge of Motivated Reasoning
    Educational Theory 71 (5): 589-607. 2021.
    Philosophy of Education, Misc
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    How argumentative writing stifles open-mindedness
    Sage Publications: Arts and Humanities in Higher Education. forthcoming.
    Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, Ahead of Print.
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    Can Morally Disvalued Traits Constitute the Symptoms of a Mental Disorder?
    Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 20 (3): 221-223. 2013.
    Philosophy of Psychiatry and Psychopathology, MiscMental Illness