| Description |
1 online resource (208 pages) |
| Contents |
Preface -- The waywardness of belief -- These are the generations: the epistemic dominance of the critical thinking movement -- Psychological insights on the formation, modification, and holding of beliefs -- Gnothi Seauton and Quaestro Mihi Factus Sum: the problem of noetic sin in Augustine -- Toward a responsibilist model of believing -- Cosmic beauty and the ethics of inquiry: appropriating Philo of Alexandria -- Conclusion: recapitulation and prospects -- Bibliography |
| Summary |
Responsible Belief tackles the problem of fixing the tenacity of believers in forming, holding, and modifying beliefs. In conversation with the history of philosophy and religion, the author attempts to expose and refute some aspects of the dominant epistemological framework for engaging belief fixation and improvement. In contrast to this framework, Dr. Frazier provides a model of a responsible believing agent rooted in an ethic of the intellectual virtue tradition. In dialogue with Aristotle, he proposes three principal virtues, which he calls the generative, the transmissive, and the metamo |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Belief and doubt.
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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Critical thinking.
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epistemology.
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Belief and doubt
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Critical thinking
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Knowledge, Theory of
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781498225014 |
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1498225012 |
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