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Doxastic Voluntarism
Doxastic Voluntarism

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[New Entry by Mark Boespflug and Elizabeth Jackson on October 1, 2024.]
Doxastic voluntarism is the thesis that our beliefs are subject to voluntary control. While there’s some controversy as to what “voluntary control” amounts to (see s1.2), it’s often understood as direct control: the ability to bring about a state of affairs “just like that”, without having to do anything else. Most of us have direct control over, for instance, bringing to mind an image of a pine tree. Can one, in like…

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