PHIL 4303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Formal Proof, Social Cognition, Johann Georg Hamann
11 Apr 2016
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Moral recognition driven by emotion (incest example) Traditional view: giving reasons is often a guide to the truth and we follow reasons in forming beliefs. Skeptical view: giving reasons presents itself as seeking the truth, but it cannot be taken at face value, because often enough we create rationalization to fit with our beliefs. Anyone who chose to follow reason alone would have proved himself a fool. Pascale: important analogy between believing and not believing, and taking a risk. Pascale"s wager belief vs. atheism: pragmatic argument for accepting god, wager is perfectly consistent with reason to believe god doesn"t exist, but pay off makes believing in god much safer. Kornblith believes we should treat reason as we treat used car salesmen. We know that a used car salesman only give information that he wants us to have in order to get us to buy the car (gives selective case) Believes that reason giving is also making a selective case.
