PHLB20H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Mark Rowlands, Hypnosis
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Lecture 12 part 1 and 2: criticizing beliefs. Part 1: mark rowlands a right to believe? . It focuses on that distinction between belief and action, holding that clifford was not quite right to elide the distinction b/t right and action in the way that he does. What does it mean to claim a right to believe"? (recorded) it could be an evidentialists right, remember clifford i. e. , you have an evidential right to a belief if you can provide appropriate evidence in support of it. A good way of depriving a person of this belief is by effectively criticizing that belief: showing, for example, that it"s illogical or lacking in evidential support. Some people conclude that, if you have a moral right to a belief, everyone else has a duty not to criticize that belief. But that can"t be right, because it would demolish other"s right to freedom of expression: (writes.
