PHLB20H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Social Epistemology, Rationality, List Of Fables Characters
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Lecture 10: you only believe that because (cases) . That is, that we have beliefs that we are merely caused to have rather than beliefs that it"s actually rational for us to have. Some people have cited this kind of challenge as the reason behind why they have abandoned (some of) their former/previously held beliefs or convictions, be it about a specific religion, political stance etc. A case about the philosopher ga cowen (recorded) These concerns are know as geneaological anxieties: the idea that the causes or geneaology of your beliefs is undermining of their justification. The narcissistic idea to make gods look like us (humans) Geneaological concerns like these arise in a variety of contexts, for a wide variety of reasons. Katia vavova defines irrelevant factors in the following way: irrelevant factors are factors that don"t bear on the truth of what we believe. We rightly omit such factors when giving reasons.
