Belief control and intentionality

Matthias Steup

pp. 145-163

in: Claudio de Almeida, Stephen Hetherington (eds), Topics in contemporary epistemology, Synthese 188 (2), 2012.

Abstract

In this paper, I argue that the rejection of doxastic voluntarism is not as straightforward as its opponents take it to be. I begin with a critical examination of William Alston’s defense of involuntarism and then focus on the question of whether belief is intentional.

Cited authors

Alston William